This video explains how the role of remedies has developed over time within the Torts Restatements and the impact remedies have on a case.
Richard L. Hasen Posts
Project Spotlight: Torts – Remedies
by Richard L. Hasen | Aug 1, 2024 | Torts: Remedies
In this video, Reporters for the Restatement of the Law Third, Torts: Remedies examine how states may vary when awarding damages.
Torts: Remedies at the 2022 ALI Annual Meeting
by Richard L. Hasen | May 10, 2022 | Torts: Remedies
In this video, Reporters Douglas Laycock and Richard L. Hasen provide an overview of Tentative Draft No. 1 of Restatement of the Law Third, Torts: Remedies, which includes a significant portion of Chapter 1 on Compensatory Damages.
A Partisan Battle In An Overreach of A Case
by Richard L. Hasen | Feb 24, 2021 | Election Administration
Brnovich v. Democratic National Committee is a strange voting rights case. Rather than the typical case, in which a voting rights group representing minority voters sues a state or locality for engaging in electoral discrimination, this case pits the two major political parties against each other, and Republican officials in Arizona against Democratic officials.
Project Spotlight: Restatement of the Law Third, Torts: Remedies
by Richard L. Hasen | Jan 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. The post contains an excerpt from Comments of § 1 of Preliminary Draft No. 1 (Oct. 2020), titled “Introduction: The Right to a Remedy.”
With News That the President Has Tested Positive for Coronavirus (and He Was in Contact with Joe Biden at the Debate Earlier in the Week), What Happens If a Presidential Candidate Dies or is Incapacitated Before Election Day? A Mess
by Richard L. Hasen | Oct 5, 2020 | Election Administration
The President and First Lady reportedly tested positive for the coronavirus…[A]s a matter of national importance we need to ask what would happen if one of the presidential candidates died or became incapacitated before election day.
Direct Democracy Denied: The Right to Initiative During a Pandemic
by Richard L. Hasen | Aug 7, 2020 | Election Administration
Putting aside the Supreme Court’s controversial decision in Republican National Committee v. Democratic National Committee, the case overextending the date for receipt of absentee ballots in the April 2020 Wisconsin primary, many (although not all) courts have done a fairly good job protecting voting rights during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Three Pathologies of American Voting Rights Illuminated by the COVID-19 Pandemic, and How to Treat and Cure Them
by Richard L. Hasen | Jul 22, 2020 | Election Administration
The COVID-19 global pandemic, which already has claimed over 100,000 lives in the United States by the end of May 2020, revealed cracks in American economic and social infrastructure. The pandemic also has revealed the inadequacy of the American political infrastructure, in particular, the lack of systematic and uniform protection of voting rights in the United States.