Thealiadviser.org Website Review

Recent Slate article by Brandon L. Garrett discusses the implementation of The First Step Act, the federal prison reform bill. THE CHIEF JUSTICE’S 2018 YEAR-END REPORT: THE FEDERAL JUDICIARY AND #METOO. Chief Justice John Roberts released his annual report on the federal judiciary today, focusing on the judiciary’s response to allegations of se*ual misconduct in the workplace. Roberts had discussed this issue in his 2017 report, after several female law clerks accused Judge Alex Kozinski – then a prominent judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit – of inappropriate se*ual conduct. The Supreme Court of Nevada recently issued a decision in which it cited two ALI publications: the Restatement (Second) of Contracts and the Restatement of the Law, Liability Insurance (Proposed Final Draft No. 2, approved May 2018).  The court looked to these Restatements to guide its an*lysis of a question of liability-insurance law under the law of Nevada. A recent article for Atlas Obscura explores the interesting and often confusing legality surrounding property law in relation to grave sites. Coal mining pursuits in West Virginia have stretched up into the mountains and on occasion require navigation around generations. PROJECT SPOTLIGHT: RESTATEMENT OF THE LAW, CHARITABLE NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS. A great deal of wealth in the United States is controlled by charitable nonprofit organizations. Yet, an authoritative statement of the law in charitable nonprofit organizations does not exist. The law of charities, drawn as it is from various other parts of the law, in many aspects remains confusing and incomplete. It is difficult for somebody who has not worked in this field to manage all these sources. As the year comes to a close, it is undeniably true that criminal justice reform is in the air. The federal First Step Act, even with critics on the left and right, heralds a less punitive approach than the “get tough on crime” policies of the past several decades.