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Law is the rule, principle, obligation or requirement of natural justice.
Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better organize information in articles related to Law. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list below.
Scope
This Wikiproject is aimed at creating a greater consistency among the law related articles. Key areas of concern include consistency in defining concepts across multiple jurisdictions and proper categorization of articles.
As a foundation for this effort, it is vital that we create a comprehensive explanation of the common law, which is shared by most English-speaking countries. The common law is clearly divisible into a number of key areas, each of which should be tackled and developed in turn. These areas are:
Each of these areas contains a wide array of long-established but nuanced doctrines, and each has a complex and ultimately fascinating history - making this a particularly worthy project for Wikipedia to conquer!
A joint effort that can be undertaken between this project and Wikiproject Philosophy is to improve the quality of articles concerned with the philosophical questions about law itself. Key components of the philosophy of law include:
Ballinacurra Weston (talk) 02:10, 18 October 2020 (UTC) (Legal History of England, Legal History of the United States, Legal History of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Constitutional Law of Pennsylvania, interaction of canon/ecclesiastical law and English common law)[reply]
Bonjourleworld (talk) 06:37, 26 August 2015 (UTC) (Primary interest lies in American constitutional law, civil war amendments, substantive due process, but with general background in international and common law traditions)[reply]
Can You Prove That You're Human (talk) (Canadian Common Law; Public Law and Private Law; focus on Human Rights Law, Contract Law, Intellectual Property, and Tort Law)
Kohlrabi Pickle (talk) 09:48, 18 February 2019 (UTC), undergraduate law student in the UK, interested in public law, public international law, land law, contract law, human rights law (ECHR) and criminology[reply]
Kmmnderkoala ( im a new wikipedian, if i did anything wrong please explain on my talk page.) 05:32, 8 December 2011
Mortifeye (talk) Laws regarding the Presidential line of succession and establishment or outlining of offices, departments, agencies, and positions. 19:30, 26 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Pacamah (talk) - Current project: Creating articles for SCOTUS cases that do not currently have one. Also looking towards law school (Still in undergrad, Harvard let me innnnn!)
RTH24- United States Federal Civil Procedure, Products Liability, Class Action and Mass Tort, state law in Georgia, South Carolina, and Tennessee and criminal practice in the states of Tennessee and Georgia.
Rzlaw - R. Zebulon Law, Esq. - Orange County, California; Estate and Business Planning, Trust Administration, Probate Avoidance, Private Foundation and Charity organization.
SenatorSteve (talk) 16:31, 23 April 2011 (UTC) -- Former pirate who leaned on the educated and good-looking side AKA a Politician, who lived on Mackinac Island. Pursing second BA to teach American Politics, History, Law and Economics aka Piracy![reply]
Sh3l4 U.S. Criminal and Constitutional Law (South Texas College of Law)
Shafesbury'sPipe(legal history, coverture, common law, constitutional law)
Shayday (talk) 10 June 2016, legal theory, English law and procedure, criminal, contract
Can Traffic stop be added and fixed? Or separate page called "Traffic stop law"
Should Fish v. Kobach be renamed Fish v. Schwab? Document 573 in this case in the US District Court for the District of Kansas filed 01/18/19 says, "Plaintiffs sued Defendant Kris W. Kobach in his official capacity as Secretary of State for the State of Kansas. Kobach served in that capacity until noon on January 14, 2019. At that time, his successor, Scott Schwab, was sworn in as Kansas Secretary of State. By operation of law, Secretary Schwab “is automatically substituted as a party.” Fed. R. Civ. P. 25(d)." The final rulings were issued June 18 and 19, 2018, but the case was appealed. I suspect that people with Wikipedia:WikiProject Law may have standard procedures for dealing with situations like this. Thanks, DavidMCEddy (talk) 04:12, 23 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
At Steele dossier#Litigation we seek to document various lawsuits related to the dossier, its author Christopher Steele, and other entities. It would be nice if legal experts could improve this content, for example by adding the correct numbers for each case, making things chronological, and making other improvements. -- Valjean (talk) 14:36, 25 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
We are currently seeking to impose a better organizational scheme to this page. Please see the Talk page for more information and to discuss. Also feel to jump right in and help with this project.
See the top of an article's Talk page to determine its importance to WP:LAW.
Articles listed on this "Tasks" page should have one or more cleanup tags (for the entire article or for sections). Cleanup tags are also known as "template messages", which are applied to a page using a cleanup template affixed to the top of the article. See a description of the cleanup process and a list of cleanup templates, also known as "template messages".
Cleanup needed: Top-importance articles
Articles in this section have been rated "Top-class" (also known as "Top-importance") on the WikiProject Law Importance scale.
Murder - needs cites, could become a GA with a bit of work. Would it be worthwhile to take the knotty legal issues out of this article and instead try to deal with them more clearly (and accurately) in separate articles by jurisdiction? There is significant chat on the talk page but I'm not sure how active it is. Would be willing to help as best I can but need guidance Shayday~enwiki (talk) 03:17, 10 June 2016 (UTC) SH[reply]
Cleanup needed: High-importance articles
Articles in this section have been rated "High-class" (also known as "High-importance") on the WikiProject Law Importance scale.
Cleanup needed: Mid-importance articles
Articles in this section have been rated "Mid-class" (also known as "Mid-importance") on the WikiProject Law Importance scale.
Effective date and Coming into force - The ambiguity of these terms has implications for the content of Template:Infobox legislation. (Note that the "Effective Date" article is currently Unassessed and is not listed as of interest to WikiProject Law.
Articles added to Tasks page, but do not contain any Cleanup tags
These articles were placed on this Tasks page at some time in the past. They might require cleanup of some kind, but since they do not contain any cleanup tags their status is unclear. See a description of the cleanup process and a list of cleanup templates. (Cleanup tags are also known as "cleanup messages" or "template messages").
Alford plea - The current page is extremely weak and lacks nuance. Most significantly, as discussed on its talk page, the definition section is repetitive and nigh unreadable and the commentary section reads more like a set of book jacket reviews than a critical discussion. I don't have the legal knowhow to really fix the page up, but I figure someone here does. Gazeboist (talk) 07:34, 7 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
The articles below have not yet been reviewed to determine their proper placement in the new organizational scheme. You can help by determining the article's importance to WikiProject Law and then moving it to the appropriate section above. (2 Jun 2019)
Missing topics
Selective publication – a process by which courts (especially appellate courts) in common-law systems (such as the United States) decide which decisions should be published. If I understand correctly, only published decisions are binding precedent; rules vary as to whether unpublished decisions have persuasive authority, or have no precedential value at all. (draft stub)
Maxims of equity Interesting article, however virtually uncited, making it impossible to know how accurate it is.
High crimes and misdemeanors - In addition to spotty citations, there seems to be a substantial issue of contradiction in the article. See talk page for details
Current projects
This list is transcluded from the current projects page, to edit this section click here
These are the current projects that the WikiProject Law is working on:
Wikisource: If you're so inclined, please help with the importation of United States Supreme Court cases on our sister project, Wikisource. A bot is currently in the process of importing every Supreme Court decision from bulk.resource.org's collection of the United States Reports. The project is in need of people to assist in proofreading, editing, and disambiguating decisions added by the bot. WikiProject U.S. Supreme Court cases on Wikisource has information about formatting and other guidelines, as well as a to do list.
If there is a legal subject that you feel needs to be covered, but hasn't, please add it to the needed article list. Please follow the instructions on the needed articles page.
Add your request in the most appropriate place below.
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Self representation (legal) (The two current WP articles on this topic are very country-specific (USA, UK) and do not represent a general/global viewpoint)
Frank Curtis - alleged serial child abuser, allegedly covered up by the Mormon church. There's a book The Sins of Brother Curtis: A Story of Betrayal, excerpts available online, and a certain lawyer claims in blog/advertising that he obtained a multi-million-dollar settlement in the case.
Operation Fountain Pen - 1970s FBI investigation into various confidence scams that seems to deserve more coverage. According to the LA Times, Operation Fountain Pen resulted in "the conviction of dozens of con men across the country" and "spawned" the Abscam investigation.[14][15][16] Related possible new article subjects could include FBI agent James J. Wedick Jr. (J. J. Wedick) and convicted con artist Phil Kitzer, both of whom were involved in multiple other cases that received considerable attention in the news as detailed in these sources.
Raines Tree Farm - multimillion dollar inheritance scam involving psychic Rachel Lee and her daughter Portia Lee scamming Oregon tree farm heir Ralph Raines Jr.[17]
Rosalynn McGinnis and Henri Michele Piette - Rosalynn was kidnapped by Henri, her stepfather, in 1997 at age 12. She escaped 19 years later with 8 of the 9 children he fathered on her. The story was reported by People magazine, The Guardian, The New York Post, and many others.
Matthew Taylor Coleman - was charged with murdering his two children with a spear fishing gun in Mexico, alleging that he was "enlightened" by QAnon that his wife carried and passed on "serpent DNA" to his kids, which compelled him to take them to Mexico and murder them to prevent them from growing into monsters[24][25]
Błażej Kot - Graduate student at Cornell University in Upstate New York who murdered his wife, Carolyn Coffey, who was also a graduate student there in June 2009. [4]
Robert Fratta [de] - convicted of murdering his wife. Executed by lethal injection in Texas on Jan 10, 2023.[30]
Tyesha Bell - 22-year-old mother of two who was last seen alive on May 10, 2003. Almost 20 years later, in December 2020, her remains were found. Foul play is suspected. ([9] (archive))
Tiffiany Beverly - African American teenager; disappeared May 27, 1997. Her remains were later discovered in a field near her home. Her stepfather, Oscar "JR" Patterson III, was convicted of molesting and murdering her. His conviction was later overturned, but a second jury found him guilty again, and he was sentenced to life in prison. (Tulsa World; News on 6; News on 6)
Rhonda Casto - 23-year-old model who passed away after falling off a cliff. It is widely believed that her boyfriend, Steven Nichols, had a hand in her death, as tests showed that only a hard push could've lead to the outcome ([10], around 22:30). Additionally, Nichols had taken a large life insurance policy out on Casto only a year before ([11][12]), and had been sleeping with Casto's 16-year-old sister when he was 34 ([13]).
Surette Clark - Four-year-old girl who was murdered in 1970, not found for almost a decade, and not identified for another 30 years. It took so long to identify her because her father killed her, and nobody reported her missing until 1994. She is about as notable as Atcel Olmedo and Anjelica Castillo.[32]
Carolyn Coffey - Graduate student at Cornell University in Upstate New York who was murdered by her husband, Błażej Kot, who was also a graduate student there, in June 2009. [14]
David Adolpho Gizzarelli - The city of San Francisco smeared David Gizzarelli and possibly killed his 16 month old American Staffordshire Terrier when David ran his puppy in an off leash area for dogs and a Park Police officer rode his lame thoroughbred racehorse into the off leash area for dogs. The fact that the police horse was lame, that the police officer did not shoot the dog, and the fact that horses are never seen in Crissy Field lend to the speculation that this was a cover up and an attempted murder. [15]; [16]; [17]; [18]; [19]; [20]; [21]; [22]
Jaime Melgar - Stabbed to death in Texas home. His wife was tied up in a closet, but was convicted of the murder. (ABC News Go, Chron, People)
Dylan Redwine - In 2012, 13-year-old Dylan Redwine was declared missing by his father, Mark Redwine, who refused to cooperate with any investigation. A year later, some of Dylan's remains were found in an area Mark frequented on his ATV. Dylan's skull was found two years after the rest of his remains, a half mile away, with evidence of blunt force trauma. [23][24]
Stephanie Scott - Australian teacher who was brutally raped and murdered in the town of Leeton, New South Wales, on 5 April 2015. Received nationwide attention due to the tragic circumstances, as she was murdered 6 days out from her wedding, and the perpetrator, Vincent Stanford, had no hatred towards her, citing that he just 'wanted to kill'. Sentenced on 13 October 2016 to life imprisonment with no parole, plus 15 years for aggravated sexual assault. I feel due to the tragic circumstances of the event, the media coverage it has received and the enigmatic persona of the killer, an article on the case is appropriate. Semi-complete info boxes can be found in my sandbox. [25]; [26]; [27]
Mickey Shunick - 21-year-old fought her kidnapper, sex offender Brandon Scott Lavergne, gaining control of the knife twice and inflicting life-threatening injuries, before he shot her in the head [28]
Disappearance of Joseph Spisak - 11-year-old boy who disappeared after his newspaper route on January 27, 1974, in Hammond, Indiana. He had only $5 in his pocket and may have been spotted on nearby railroad tracks on the day of his disappearance, but nobody has found any trace of him since. As of 2019, his family is still devastated by his mysterious disappearance, as reported in two recent newspaper articles. [29][30]
Lea Campos Boralevi - Italian writer of a variety of books on law, history and ethics.
Raymond Daniel Burke - Baltimore based Lawyer, Political activist, Writer whose frequent commentary appears in The Baltimore Sun. Author of the popular blog, www.marylandcondolaw.com.
Emílio García Méndez - Emílio Arturo García Mendez teaches criminology for the Psychology School of the Buenos Aires University, in Argentina [32]. He is an expert in children's rights in Latin America [33].
Henry T. C. Hu - Allan Shivers Chair in the Law of Banking and Finance at the University of Texas Law School; appointed by U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Mary L. Schapiro as the inaugural Director of the SEC's Division of Risk, Strategy, and Financial Innovation (2009-2011).
Vibhav Krishna - media and entertainment specialist lawyer who managed get Bharat Shah acquitted. Also represents a significant amount of the film, television and print industry in courts
John D. Leshy - former solicitor of U.S. Department of Interior (1993-2001); Emeritus Harry D. Sunderland and Distinguished Professor of Real Property Law at University of California-Hastings College of the Law (2001-present); four-time visiting professor at Harvard Law School; former professor of law at Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law at Arizona State University (1980-1992); former associate solicitor of U.S. Department of Interior (1977-1980); vice-chairman of the board of directors of the Wyss Foundation and member of the board of trustees of Grand Canyon Trust; author of The Mining Law: A Study in Perpetual Motion (1987), The Arizona State Constitution (Oxford Univ. Press, 2d ed. 2013)(part of Oxford Series on the State Constitutions of the United States), several law school casebooks (Federal Public Land and Resources Law, Legal Control of Water Resources - Cases and Materials), and many academic articles in law reviews and book chapters relating to environmental, public lands, and natural resources law; winner of Vanity Fair Magazine recognition as one of the Nation's Best Environmental Stewards in 2004, Defenders of Wildlife Legacy Award for Lifetime Achievement in Wildlife Conservation in 2013, and Distinguished Achievement Award, American Bar Association, Section on Environment, Energy and Resources in 2018.
Matthew Anthony Murphy - international arbitrator, jurist and author - one of a small group of foreigners to become an arbitrator with the Beijing Arbitration Commission. He is also a 15-year arbitrator with the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre and the Asian Domain Name Dispute Resolution Centre[42][43]
Peter J Rubin - Jurist. Argued Bush v Gore. Founded American Constitution Society. Law Professor (emeritus), Georgetown University. Associate Justice, Massachusetts Appeals Court. "His teaching and research have focused on Constitutional Law and Criminal Justice, and he has written extensively on Constitutional Law, with a particular focus on equal protection, due process and voting rights."
Ricard E. Scott longest serving African American Justice Of The Peace, Pct 1, Travis County Texas. Recently retired and had a Travis County bldg named after him.
Gary Simson - Dean of Mercer University Law School and former Dean of Case Western Reserve Law School. Also served as a professor at Texas and Cornell. Graduated from Yale.
Horace Gray Wood - c. 1877 wrote seminal U.S. legal treatise on "master-servant relationship" which was the genesis of the U.S. At-will employment doctrine.
Engelberg Center on Innovation Law & Policy - The Engelberg Center is a research center at NYU Law focused on issues related to innovation law & policy including intellectual property law, competition law, and privacy law. In addition to a number of high-profile faculty Co-Directors such as Rochelle C. Dreyfuss, the Center hosts research fellows and holds events. Center affiliates are regularly quoted as experts in a wide variety of news outlets on a wide variety of topics. Co-directors have also published open casebooks on trademark and copyright law.
Law Foundation of Ontario - an organization created by an amendment to the Law Society Act in 1974. Its purpose is to receive the interest earned on lawyers' mixed trust accounts and to use it to support legal education, legal aid, legal research and law libraries. By law, the foundation gives 75% of the revenue from these mixed trust accounts after operating expenses to Legal Aid Ontario and 25% to grants with the purpose to improve access to justice.
Lawyers Constitutional Defense Committee - an organization of civil rights and pro bono attorneys instrumental in securing rights for minorities, particularly in MS. And LA during and after the Freedom Summer. LCDC was a key organization for constitutional rights in the deep South. People who can add more information include attorneys Stanley A. Halpin of the Southern University Law School (Baton Rouge) and George Strickler of the Tulane University School of Law. LCDC is referenced in several existing articles (e.g., Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law).
Legal Services Regulatory Authority - LSRA was launched yesterday by the Ministry of Law of Singapore to license and regulate both foreign and local law firms here, as well as consolidating the regulation of all law firms under a single legal body.[36]
Template:Supreme Courts of Europe In the UK for instance, there are at least 2 other de facto Supreme Courts alongside and in addition to the actual UK Supreme Court (the High Court of Justiciary of the Supreme Courts of Scotland and the Judiciary Committee of the Privy Council; if you don't also count the Houses of Parliament!) In France, there are 4 (technically all de facto) Supreme Courts. The present ad hoc template is just simply not fit for purpose. We need a proper, actual dedicated template.
Cicenia v. LaGay 357 U.S. 504 (1958). Question: Did the state's refusal to permit Cicenia to communicate with counsel during the policy interrogation deprive him of due process? [50]
Cuyler v. Sullivan 446 U.S. 335 (1980). Is a confession obtained during an interrogation in which the suspect asked for and was denied access to counsel obtained in violation of the suspect's Fourteenth Amendment right to due process? [54]
Eli Lilly v. Zenith Goldline, 471 F.3d 1369 (Fed. Cir. 2006). Distinguished that a patent for a drug could still be valid, despite prior public knowledge of an analogue for the drug. See "Mueller on Patent Law: Patentability and Validity" by Janice M. Mueller, 2012.
Frost v. Corporation Commission (1929) - used by the American lower courts to conclude that a license is not necessary if existing businesses are "sufficient to meet the public needs therein."
Mitsui Construction Co Ltd v A-G of Hong Kong (1986) 33 BLR 14 (UK), (principles of contract interpretation, contract law): ".. the poorer the quality of the drafting, the less willing the court should be to be driven by semantic niceties to attribute to the parties an improbable and unbusinesslike intention, if the language used, whatever it may lack in precision, is reasonably capable of an interpretation which attributes to the parties an intention to make provision for contingencies inherent in the work contracted for on a sensible and businesslike basis"
National Association of Manufacturers v. Taylor (2009 case that challenged the HLOGA section which lowered the threshold for lobbyist clients to disclose the organizations which actively participate in their lobbying efforts)
WF v. The Scottish Ministers [2016] CSOH 27 - important Scottish legal case in the field of privacy, the confidentiality of medical records and the rights of complainers in criminal cases.
C-170/13 (Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd v ZTE Corp., ZTE Deutschland GmbH) - European Court of Justice case on standards and patents
Centocor Ortho Biotech, Inc. v. Abbott Laboratories (Fed. Cir. 2011) $1.67 billion jury award for patent infringement, Eastern District of Texas, June 2009, possibly the highest ever award of damages in a patent case in the United States — overturned on appeal by the Federal Circuit[87]
Entsperrbild (X ZR 110/13), important decision by the Federal Court of Justice of Germany (BGH) regarding patentability of user interface features[92][93][94][95][96]
Section 73(1A) Revocation, proceedings before the UK IPO (Intellectual Property Office) during which the validity of a patent is reviewed at the behest of the comptroller[117][118]
IViR Institute for Information Law - Amsterdam-based Institute in Europe for information law, intellectual property, copyright, etc.; very relevant in copyright on digital and internet issues, trying to find a balance between copyright, privacy, fundamental rights, freedom to information, etc. good source of infos is [153]
Louisiana house bill 195 to prohibit the use of cash in second-hand sales conducted by for-profits. Some have called it unconstittutional since U.S. bills state they are legal tender for all transatacitons...64.53.191.77 (talk) 20:21, 4 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
judex suspectus, also spelled iudex suspectus - Iudex suspectus: (Roman law) "a judge whose impartiality is doubted. He may be rejected by the parties involved in a litigation. The term appears only in later imperial constitutions." [184]
Tempus regit actum ("...any procedural steps should be governed by the law valid at the point in time when the procedural step is taken or due to be taken"[191]) (see also [192][193])
Transfer clause Is this a request for an article on a transfer clause in human resources legislation, [194]; in a lease, [195]; in international financing. [196]; something else?
Unreasonableness (law) (a general article on unreasonableness in administrative law could also be useful, highlighting different legal perspectives like Wednesbury unreasonableness, proportionality, and the Canadian concept of patent unreasonableness)
^Doug Saunders, "Hidden Face of Murder Frustrates Pursuers". Globe and Mail, October 22, 2002, pp.A9.
^Robert Maas, "Abortion Doctor Stabbed in B.C.". The Globe and Mail, July 12, 2000, page A3
^Estanislao Oziewicz, "Potential Jurors Must Reveal Abortion Views". The Globe and Mail, March 4, 2003, page A3
^Michael Beebe, "Round Two for James Kopp: Anti-Abortion Activist Goes on Trial Again This Week for the Sniper Death of and Amherst Abortion Provider", The Buffalo News, pg. 1, January 7, 2007
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