Questions on New York's Neumeier Rules
1) Is it true that laws concerning contribution are
loss-allocating rather than conduct regulating, as the court claims in
Cooney?
2) What is the relevant injury in Cooney for application of the second
Neumeier rule? Is it Cooney’s injury? Or is it Osgood's loss that is
the source of the impleader against Mueller? Is there any reason to
think that rules created for guest statutes are likely to work here?
3) Isn't it odd that MO law is applied to someone with no connection to
MO? Isn't that unconstitutional? But wouldn't it also be
unconstitutional to apply NY law to Mueller?
4) Don't the problems with the Neumeier rules show that it is better to
simply use the more unconstrained interest analysis approach?