UK Supreme Court Looks to Restatement of U.S. Law of International Commercial and Investor-State Arbitration

The Court found that when choice of law is not identified in an arbitration agreement, the law of the seat of arbitration is the law “most closely connected” to agreement, and references Restatement of the Law, The U.S. Law of International Commercial and Investor-State Arbitration in support of its decision.

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Supreme Court of New Mexico Cites Principles of the Law, Policing

In State v. Martinez, 478 P.3d 880 (N.M. 2020), the Supreme Court of New Mexico cited the Principles of the Law, Policing (T.D. No. 2, 2019), in abandoning the prevailing federal rule governing the admission of eyewitness-identification evidence, as articulated in Manson v. Brathwaite, 432 U.S. 98 (1977), in favor of adopting a new per se exclusionary rule for unnecessarily suggestive pretrial identification procedures, based on its determination that the New Mexico Constitution provided broader due-process protection in the context of eyewitness-identification evidence than the U.S. Constitution.

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Trespass to Land and Intent

The following entry is excerpted from Tentative Draft No. 2 for Restatement of the Law Fourth, Property. Included below is the Topic Note to Trespass to Land, Generally; § 1.5. Intent Required for Trespass to Land, and Comment b. to § 1.5.

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