User:28USC1344

28USC1344 is a first-year law student in Washington, D.C.

Created

 * Jurisdiction stripping
 * Loretto v. Teleprompter Manhattan CATV Corp.
 * Palazzolo v. Rhode Island
 * Village of Belle Terre v. Boraas

Substantially altered

 * Discovery (law)
 * Hickman v. Taylor
 * Immigration and Naturalization Service v. Chadha
 * Lucas v. South Carolina Coastal Council
 * Pennsylvania Coal Co. v. Mahon
 * Regulatory taking
 * Sandra Day O'Connor
 * Work-product doctrine

Patrolled for vandalism

 * Sandra Day O'Connor (this page is particular suceptible to vandalism, for reasons beyond me)

General
I often prefer less to generate my own content and more to improve upon and reorganize other people's content. Specifically, I like organizing articles into a strict and simply hierarchy, and adding as many citations as humanly possible.

Cases
I would like to spend more time editing case articles on Wikipedia. However, I tend to like to "brief" cases, instead of writing standard encyclopedia articles about them. For my own purposes, I created the "Super-Maxi-Brief" format for cases, which I use both in my studies and for editing Wikipedia case articles. A brief in this format follows the the structure below: My article on Hickman v. Taylor is a good example of the Super-Maxi-Brief format.
 * 1) Parties
 * 2) Background
 * 3) State of law&mdash;Particular statutes or regulations relevant to the case (such as the basis for a claim or defense, or the subject of a constitutionality dispute)
 * 4) Facts&mdash;The real-world factual background of the dispute
 * 5) Procedural history&mdash;Everything that the parties did in anticipation of, or during, litigation, except for the very last step (the posture)
 * 6) Procedural posture&mdash;The object sought by the party appealing or moving
 * 7) Legal Analysis
 * 8) Issue&mdash;The question at hand regarding specific actions of the court
 * 9) Arguments/theories&mdash;Arguments of all parties and, if relevant, of the lower courts or amicus curiae
 * 10) Rule of Law&mdash;The rule of law followed, or created and followed, by the court
 * 11) Holding&mdash;The answer to the issue (usually a minor rewording of the issue)
 * 12) Notable concurrences and dissents
 * 13) Result
 * 14) Judgment/disposition&mdash;The order the court
 * 15) Legacy and other notes

Membership

 * 1) WikiProject Law
 * 2) I am considering started a Wikipedia Society at my law school. However, I think that it might be redundant, as the WikiProject Law may be sufficient.
 * 3) I am also considering joining the WikiProject U.S. Supreme Court cases. However, my Super-Maxi-Brief format does not conform at all to the standard proposed by that group.