Medical Decisions, Corporal Punishment, and Parents’ Rights
Project Reporters Emily Buss, Solangel Maldonado, and Clare Huntington discuss issues of pluralism in the Children and the Law Restatement.
Liability Insurance Draft Cited
In a decision that discussed the issue of rescission of insurance contracts in cases of material misrepresentations in insurance applications by high-risk insureds, the Superior Court of the State of California, County of Los Angeles cited the Proposed Final Draft of Restatement of the Law, Liability Insurance.
Updated Sentencing Black Letter Text
Model Penal Code: Sentencing Reporters have updated the black letter text of the Proposed Final Draft.
Preview of 50-state report on effective relief mechanisms
The Collateral Consequences Resource Center is currently finalizing a 50-state report on the availability of relief from the adverse civil effects of a criminal arrest or conviction.
Internationalizing the New Conflict of Laws Restatement
Some sixteen years ago, on the occasion of one of many symposia on the possibility of a new Restatement of Conflict of Laws to replace the much derided Second Restatement, Mathias Reimann suggested that a new Restatement should focus on the requirements of what he called “the international age.” Conflict of laws is increasingly international, he pointed out.
When Does An Indian Reservation Cease to Exist? Tenth Circuit Discusses in Murphy v. Royal
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit invalidated the state court murder conviction and death sentence of Patrick Dwayne Murphy, an American Indian, after concluding that the Oklahoma courts lacked jurisdiction.
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