28USC1344 is a first-year law student in Washington, D.C.
Projects
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:
- Parties
- Background
- State of law—Particular statutes or regulations relevant to the case (such as the basis for a claim or defense, or the subject of a constitutionality dispute)
- Facts—The real-world factual background of the dispute
- Procedural history—Everything that the parties did in anticipation of, or during, litigation, except for the very last step (the posture)
- Procedural posture—The object sought by the party appealing or moving
- Legal Analysis
- Issue—The question at hand regarding specific actions of the court
- Arguments/theories—Arguments of all parties and, if relevant, of the lower courts or amicus curiae
- Rule of Law—The rule of law followed, or created and followed, by the court
- Holding—The answer to the issue (usually a minor rewording of the issue)
- Notable concurrences and dissents
- Result
- Judgment/disposition—The order the court
- Legacy and other notes
My article on Hickman v. Taylor is a good example of the Super-Maxi-Brief format.