Richard L. Revesz and Jennifer Morinigo | April 28, 2021 | Copyright
The following is the Foreword text from Tentative Draft No. 2. Of Restatement of the Law, Copyright. This draft will be presented to ALI’s members at the 2021 Annual Meeting. In October 2014, the ALI Council launched the Restatement of the Law, Copyright. The goal of...
Jennifer Morinigo | April 22, 2021 | Liability Insurance
In late 2020, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit certified to the Supreme Court of Georgia three questions of Georgia law relating to a lawsuit brought in federal district court by Fife Whiteside, the trustee of the bankruptcy estate of Bonnie...
Jennifer Morinigo | February 23, 2021 | Liability Insurance
In its Decision and Order on Cross-Motions for Summary Judgment (2021 WL 681119), the District Court of Maine was presented with the issue of when a duty to defend terminates. The court looked to Section 18 of Restatement of the Law, Liability...
Richard L. Hasen, Douglas Laycock and Jennifer Morinigo | January 7, 2021 | Torts: Remedies
In the fall of 2020, the first draft of Restatement of the Law Third, Torts: Remedies was produced and the first project meeting was held. This project was launched along with two other Torts projects, Defamation and Privacy and Concluding Provisions, which once...
Andrew Kull, Douglas Laycock, Caprice L. Roberts and Jennifer Morinigo | January 4, 2021 | Torts: Remedies
In Liu v. SEC (June 22, 2020), the Supreme Court of the United States held, in an enforcement action by the Securities and Exchange Commission, that a disgorgement order that did not exceed a wrongdoer’s net profits and was awarded for victims constituted “equitable...