Seo Ho Lee | July 10, 2026 | Property
In a property dispute, the Supreme Court of Idaho adopted § 3.4 of the Restatement of the Law Third, Property (Servitudes), as the standard for determining the reasonableness of a restraint on alienation. Smallwood v. Little, 583 P.3d 149 (Idaho 2026), dealt with a...
Seo Ho Lee | March 23, 2026 | Election Litigation, Property
The Supreme Court of Iowa adopted Restatement of the Law Third, Property: Wills and Other Donative Transfers § 8.5, Comment c, for its definition of “probable cause” in the context of challenging the validity of a will containing a no-contest clause. In Matter of...
Jennifer Morinigo | February 1, 2026 | Conflict of Laws, Corporate Governance, High-Volume Civil Adjudication, Property, The Foreign Relations Law of the United States, Torts: Defamation and Privacy, Torts: Remedies
Seven project drafts will be presented to ALI’s Membership for approval at this year’s Annual Meeting, May 18-20 in Washington, D.C. Restatement of the Law Third, Conflict of Laws Restatement of the Law, Corporate Governance Restatement of the Law Fourth, The Foreign...
Pauline Toboulidis | January 28, 2026 | Conflict of Laws, Election Litigation, High-Volume Civil Adjudication, Property, The Foreign Relations Law of the United States, Torts: Remedies
At its meeting on January 22 and 23, 2026, the ALI Council discussed drafts of six projects as listed below; it approved, in part or in whole, five of those drafts.* Conflict of Laws The Council approved Council Draft No. 11, containing Chapter 7, Property, Topic 4,...
Jennifer Morinigo | November 3, 2025 | Constitutional Torts, Corporate Governance, High-Volume Civil Adjudication, Property, Torts: Defamation and Privacy
At its meeting on October 16 and 17, 2025, the ALI Council discussed and approved, in part or in whole, drafts of five projects as listed below.* Constitutional Torts The Council approved the following provisions of Council Draft No. 1: §§ 1.01–1.04, containing...
Andrea Tosato and Christopher K. Odinet | April 3, 2025 | Property, Uniform Commercial Code
Is crypto property? The proliferation of digital assets such as cryptocurrencies, stablecoins, memecoins, and NFTs has confronted legal systems worldwide with three interdependent challenges: determining whether they are property, identifying their appropriate...
