Foreign Relations Fourth Cited by U.S. Supreme Court
Andrea Kang WoosterThe U.S. Supreme Court recently cited Restatement of the Law Fourth, The Foreign Relations Law of the United States § 481 and Restatement of the Law Second, Conflict of Laws § 98.
Cal. Supreme Court Cites Restatement 3d Torts: Liability for Economic Harm
Lauren KlosinskiThe California Supreme Court cited the Restatement of the Law Third, Torts: Liability for Economic Harm in its recent decision involving the issue of whether a gas company had a tort duty to guard against purely economic losses.
San Francisco Joins National Push to Abolish Youth Prisons
Ella FasslerIt’s happening in Minneapolis. New Jersey. Arkansas. Upstate New York. Durango, Colorado. One by one, juvenile prisons are closing, or are slated to close, in response to child abuse reports, sustained pressure from activists and a halving of national juvenile confinement rates since 2002.
The Belloni Decision and Its Legacy: United States v. Oregon and Its Far-Reaching Effects After a Half-Century
Michael Blumm and Cari BaermannFifty years ago, Judge Robert Belloni handed down an historic treaty fishing rights case in Sohappy v. Smith, later consolidated into United States v. Oregon, which remains among the longest running federal district court cases in history.
Invisible Stripes: The Problem of Youth Criminal Records
Judith McMullenIt is common knowledge in American society that persons who have criminal records will have a more difficult path to obtaining legitimate employment. Similarly, conventional wisdom acknowledges the unfortunate fact that young people, on average, are more prone to engage in risky, impulsive, and other ill-advised behavior that might result in brushes with law enforcement authorities.
What If 2020 Election Is Disputed?
Edward B. Foley and Michael McConnellSpeaker Nancy Pelosi was correct when she recently said that the best way to avoid a disputed election is for the result to be a blowout. But that is a hope, and we need a plan.