If either statutes or decisions could be made private property, it would be in the power of an individual to shut out the light by which we guide our actions.
—Justice McLean, Wheaton v. Peters, 33 U.S. 591, 668 (1834)
WikiProject Law aims to improve Wikisource's collection of law related source texts, including judicial opinions, statutes, and legal scholarship.
Participants
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To-do
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- Identify digital sources for law texts
- Improve templates for statutes and judicial opinions
- Add and wikify texts
- Identify copyright issues for categories of law texts.
Templates
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- WikiProject US Supreme Court - exciting header for talk pages of pages being worked on (from Wikisource:WikiProject U.S. Supreme Court cases)
- Template:USSCcase - navigation and info for title page of each case. see page for usage info (from Wikisource:WikiProject U.S. Supreme Court cases)
- Template:USSCcase2 - Navigation and info for each document of the case. see page for usage info (from Wikisource:WikiProject U.S. Supreme Court cases)
- Template:CaseCaption - Creates a caption for the syllabus (from Wikisource:WikiProject U.S. Supreme Court cases)
License templates edit
- {{PD-EdictGov}} - license for edicts of a government, local or foreign; public domain in the United States.
- {{PD-in-USGov}} - license for edicts of the United States federal government; public domain in the U.S.