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Case Citations [i] (Spring 2026)

handle is hein.ali/rettgp2441 and id is 1 raw text is: *THE AMERICAN LAW INSTITUTE Spring 2026 Citations TRUSTS 3D PART 1. NATURE, CHARACTERISTICS, AND TYPES OF TRUSTS CHAPTER 1. DEFINITIONS AND DISTINCTIONS § 2. Definition of Trust C.A.6, 2025. Cit. in ftn. Trustee of a trust that owned residential rental property, individually and as trustee, filed an action against city to challenge its housing-code inspection rules, alleging that city violated his Fourth Amendment and Equal Protection rights by demanding his consent to warrantless searches before it would give him a rental license. The district court granted city's motion for summary judgment, finding that trustee lacked standing to raise a Fourth Amendment claim because the housing code did not authorize unconstitutional searches, and city never conducted any warrantless, nonconsensual inspections on the trust's property. This court affirmed. In making its decision, the court observed that the trust was also a plaintiff, and that the modern trend as pointed out in Restatement Third of Trusts § 2 was to recognize a trust as a legal entity with legal capacity, despite trusts traditionally having been limited to being a fiduciary relationship between people. Herschfus v. City of Oak Park, Michigan, 150 F.4th 489, 493. § 3. Settlor, Trust Property, Trustee, and Beneficiary D.C.App.2025. Subsec. (1) quot. in sup. After nonprofit charitable corporation, which was created to purchase a house through a grant provided by a national affordable housing nonprofit, attempted to sell the house to an undisclosed private party, resident of the house sued corporation, alleging, among other things, that corporation was effectively a charitable trust and that the sale would violate the Uniform Trust Code (UTC), which required trust assets to be used in a manner compliant with the trust's purposes. The trial court granted judgment as a matter of law to corporation, finding that resident lacked standing to bring a UTC claim. This court affirmed, holding that resident was not a settlor of corporation as defined by Restatement Third of Trusts § 3(1) with standing to file a claim under the UTC, because he did not contribute any property to corporation, and that no exception to that rule applied to afford resident standing. Farina v. Janet Keenan Housing Corporation, 335 A.3d 537, 549. § 5. Trusts and Other Relationships COPYRIGHT C2026 By THE AMERICAN LAW INSTITUTE All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America For earlier citations, see the Appendices, Supplements, or Pocket Parts, if any, that correspond to the subject matter under examination.