McMillan v. McMillan
1) Is the court right to point to a case of inconsistency in New York
courts'
application of interst analysis (in Babcock and Kell) to show that
modern
approaches are too unpredictable? Consider what Doug Rendleman
has to say
in McMillan v. McMillan: Choice of Law in a Sinkholke, 67
2) Why don't Levy v. Daniels' U-Drive or Haumschild or
Grant
v. McAuliffe show that the place of the wrong rule is unpredictable
too?
Jones v. R.S. Jones & Assoc.
1) What happened to the predictability of the 1st Restatement approach?
Buchanan v. Doe
1) What happened to the predictability of the 1st Restatement approach?!!
2) How can the case be a contract action, since it is not against the insurance company? Furthermore, unlike in Levy, the John Doe defendant is not a third party beneficiary to the insurance contract.
3) In speaking of “our understanding of the purpose of UM insurance,” isn’t the majority engaging in interest analysis?
4) Do you think it is chance that the
5) In recommending that one look to conflicts cases in which West Virginia determined the scope of its physical contact requirement (not to mention in appealing to the public policy exception), isn’t the concurrence engaging in interest analysis?
6) Why isn’t the physical contact requirement a
matter of
procedure, rather than tort or contract?
Dreher v. Budget
Rent-a-Car
1) Do you think it's chance that the Virginia
plaintiff got the law he wanted?
2) What happened to the predictability of the 1st
Restatement approach?!!
3) Not much more to say about this case, except
that the Virginia Supreme Court relied on the oldest characterization
trick in the book.