Megan Dingley | May 6, 2022 | Children and the Law, Inside The ALI
In In re C. L. E., 502 P.3d 1154 (Or. Ct. App. 2021), the Court of Appeals of Oregon cited Restatement of the Law, Children and the Law § 15.30 (Tentative Draft No. 2, 2019) (subsequently renumbered as § 13.40), which the membership approved at the 2019 Annual...
Megan Dingley | November 18, 2021 | Inside The ALI, U.S. Foreign Relations Law
The Restatement of the Law Fourth, The Foreign Relations Law of the United States: Selected Topics in Treaties, Jurisdiction, and Sovereign Immunity, which was published in 2018, has been receiving significant attention in federal and state courts. The Restatement was...
Megan Dingley | April 20, 2021 | 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...
Megan Dingley | March 26, 2021 | Torts: Intentional Torts to Persons
Recently, the U.S. Supreme Court held that “the application of physical force to the body of a person with intent to restrain is a seizure even if the person does not submit and is not subdued,” and cited the Restatement of the Law, Torts, in reasoning that the common...
Megan Dingley | February 5, 2021 | U.S. Foreign Relations Law
Recently, in Federal Republic of Germany v. Philipp, No. 19-351 (Feb. 3, 2021), the U.S. Supreme Court cited the Second, Third, and Fourth Restatements of The Foreign Relations Law of the United States. In that case, American heirs of Jewish art dealers who were based...
