What’s happening right now is that the ULC is proposing a tort law relating to drones, which would give homeowners the right to sue drone operators for flying over their private property under certain conditions.īackground on the Tort Law Relating to Drones ( Update: In comment to DRONELIFE, McNeal maintains that ULC members were aware of his role at AirMap and clarifies that he was not involved in the current draft of the law and in his role as reporter, was not a voting member of the committee for the prior draft.) McNeal is also listed as one of three American Bar Association Advisors for the Tort Law Relating to Drones. The ULC, by their own definition, “provides states with non-partisan, well-conceived and well-drafted legislation that brings clarity and stability to critical areas of state statutory law.” It is interesting to note that while the ULC claims to be entirely non-partisan, a review of the 15 members of the Committee responsible for the Tort Law Relating to Drones reveals that Gregory McNeal, co-founder of airspace intelligence platform AirMap, is listed only under his Pepperdine University credentials, without mention of his interest in AirMap. The definition of “Tort,” according to the Cornell Legal Information Institute, is “an act or omission that gives rise to injury or harm to another and amounts to a civil wrong for which courts impose liability,” and the point of a tort law is “to provide relief to injured parties for harms caused by others, to impose liability on parties responsible for the harm, and to deter others from committing harmful acts.” That relief, says the Institute, is typically, “damages in the form of monetary compensation.”
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