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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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You can join this project by adding your name to the participants list and placing the {{User WikiProject Law}} template on your user page.
- Slaporte (talk)
- LegalSkeptic (talk)
- BD2412 T 02:50, 26 May 2010 (UTC)
- Htonl (talk)
- Wabbit98 (talk) *project slave, it never seems to end
- Sir Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington (talk)
- Presidentman (talk • contribs) 20:54, 22 April 2011 (UTC)
- James500 (talk) 06:12, 6 January 2012 (UTC)
- Technolalia (talk) 16:18, 18 February 2014 (UTC)
- Apt-ark (talk) 04:02, 26 November 2017 (UTC)
- Reboot01 (talk) 21:03, 22 April 2019 (UTC)
- Ratte (talk) 19:35, 19 March 2020 (UTC)
- 廣九直通車 (talk) 13:13, 30 April 2020 (UTC)
- El Dubs (talk) 05:37, 19 September 2020 (UTC)
- EthanLee (talk) 18:26, 25 April 2021 (UTC)
- Sliz42 (talk) 13:48, 5 May 2021 (UTC)
- Chromodyne (talk)
- I'm mender (talk) 22:44, 23 May 2022 (UTC)
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.
Table of U.S. law on Wikisource
[edit]| Area of law | Index on Wikisource | Source(s) | Progress | Notes |
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| Federal | ||||
| United States Constitution | Constitution of the United States of America | |||
| United States Code | United States Code | FDsys (primary) |
See Wikisource:WikiProject US Code | |
| United States Statutes at Large | United States Statutes at Large | |||
| Code of Federal Regulations | Code of Federal Regulations | FDsys (primary) |
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| United States Executive Orders | Portal:Executive Orders | See Wikisource:WikiProject United States Executive Orders | ||
| Decisions of the United States Supreme Court | United States Reports | Open Jurist, Cornell Legal Information Institute | See Wikisource:WikiProject U.S. Supreme Court cases | |
| Federal Rules | Federal Rules of Civil Procedure Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure |
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| Decisions of the Federal Circuit Courts of Appeals | Federal Reporter | |||
| Decisions of the Federal District Courts | Federal Supplement | |||
| Regional Reporters | ||||
| Southern Reporter | First and second series. Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi - Supreme Court | |||
| Pacific Reporter | First, second, and third series. Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Kansas, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Utah, Washington, Wyoming - Supreme Court | |||
| Southwestern Reporter | First, second, and third series. Arkansas, Florida, Kentucky, Tennessee, Texas - Supreme Court | |||
| Atlantic Reporter | First and second series. Connecticut, Delaware, D.C., Maine, Maryland, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont - Supreme Court | |||
| Southeastern Reporter | First and second series. Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia - Supreme Court | |||
| Northeastern Reporter | First and second series. Illinois, Indiana, Massachusetts, New York, Ohio - Supreme Court | |||
| Northwestern Reporter | First and second series. Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wisconsin - Supreme Court | |||
| State Statute Compilations | ||||
| Code of Alabama | ||||
| Alaska Statutes | ||||
| Arizona Revised Statutes Annotated | ||||
| Arkansas Code Annotated | Arkansas Code - Free Public Access (LexisNexis) | |||
| West's Annotated California Civil Code | ||||
| West's Annotated California Civil Code | ||||
| West's Annotated California Code of Civil Procedure | ||||
| West's Annotated California Business and Professions Code | ||||
| West's Annotated California Penal Code | ||||
| West's Annotated California Insurance Code | ||||
| West's Annotated California Code | ||||
| Colorado Revised Statutes | Colorado Revise Statutes - Free Public Access (LexisNexis) | "Colorado law recognizes that persons, agencies, or political subdivisions, other than the General Assembly, may seek to publish, reprint, or distribute the statutes of the state of Colorado, in print format, digital format, or both. See § 2-5-118, C.R.S. Any person, agency, or political subdivision seeking to publish, reprint, or distribute the Colorado Revised Statutes by using the statutory database containing the official text of the statutes as prepared by the General Assembly should contact the Office of Legislative Legal Services for further information."[1] | ||
| General Statutes of Connecticut | ||||
| General Statutes of Connecticut | ||||
| D.C. Official Code | ||||
| Florida Statutes | ||||
| Official Code of Georgia Annotated | ||||
| Hawaii Revised Statutes | ||||
| Idaho Code Annotated | ||||
| Illinois Ompiled Statutes | ||||
| Indiana Code | ||||
| Code of Iowa | ||||
| Kansas Statutes Annotated | ||||
| Kentucky Revised States Annotated | ||||
| Louisiana Revised Statutes Annotated | ||||
| Indiana Code | ||||
| Main Revised Statutes Annotated | ||||
| Maryland Code and Court Rules | https://advance.lexis.com/container?config=00JAA1NTM5MzBmZC02MTg2LTQzNmEtYmI5Yy0yZWEwYzA1OGEwNTYKAFBvZENhdGFsb2fdgr2eooaZj7MpSZGOIwWq&&prid=&crid=956de81c-c486-4f9e-802f-49e8e56a1a77 | |||
| General Laws of Massachusetts | ||||
| Michigan Compiled Laws | ||||
| Minnesota Revised Statutes Annotated | ||||
| Mississippi Revised Statutes Annotated | ||||
| Montana Revised Statutes Annotated | ||||
| Nebraska Revised Statutes Annotated | ||||
| Nevada Revised Statutes Annotated | ||||
| New Hampshire Revised Statutes Annotated | ||||
| New Jersey Statutes Annotated | New Jersey Statutes Annotated; New Jersey Rules of Court | Justia, Rutgers School of Law-Camden, Rutgers School of Law-Newark, New Jersey Law Network | ||
| New Mexico Statutes Annotated | ||||
| McKinney's Consoledateed Laws of New York Annotated | ||||
| General Statutes of North Carolina | ||||
| North Dakota Century Code | Century Code | |||
| Page's Ohio Code Annotated | LAWriter Ohio Laws and Rules | |||
| Oklahoma Revised Statutes Annotated | ||||
| Oregon Revised Statutes | ||||
| Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes | ||||
| Rhode Island Revised Statutes Annotated | ||||
| Code of Laws of South Carolina | ||||
| Rhode Island Revised Statutes Annotated | ||||
| South Dakota Codified Laws | ||||
| Rhode Island Revised Statutes Annotated | ||||
| Tennessee Code Annotated | ||||
| Texas Code Annotated | ||||
| Utah Code Annotated | ||||
| Vermont Code Annotated | ||||
| Virginia Code Annotated | ||||
| Revised Code of Washington | ||||
| West Virginia | ||||
| Wisconsin Statutes | ||||
| Wyoming Code Annotated | ||||
Templates
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- {{WikiProject Law}} — header for talk pages of pages being worked on
- Table of citation templates — a complete template of all citation templates used
- {{WikiProject USSC}} — header for talk pages of Supreme Court pages being worked on (from Wikisource:WikiProject U.S. Supreme Court cases)
- {{USSCcase}} — navigation and info for title page of a U.S. Supreme Court case. See page for usage info (from Wikisource:WikiProject U.S. Supreme Court cases)
- {{USSCcase2}} — Navigation and info for each document of the case. See page for usage info (from Wikisource:WikiProject U.S. Supreme Court cases)
- {{Case}} — navigation and info for title page of a non-Supreme Court case. This is the same as USSCcase, except that it does not add any category automatically, so you will have to add your own.
- {{Case2}} — Navigation and info for each document of the case.
- {{CaseCaption}} — Creates a caption for the syllabus (from Wikisource:WikiProject U.S. Supreme Court cases)
- {{Article}} — Formats and creates span id for each clause in a constitution, treaty, or other legal document (translated from Turkish Wikisource)
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.
- {{PD-USGov}} - shorter license statement for edicts of the U.S. government
Tools
[edit]Use this tool to turn legal citations into interwiki links.
Related projects on Wikisource
[edit]- United States Statutes at Large
- Wikisource:WikiProject NZ Law
- Wikisource:WikiProject UK Law
- Wikisource:WikiProject U.S. Supreme Court cases
- Portal:United States case law
- Portal:United States copyright case law
- Wikisource:WikiProject US Code
- Wikisource:WikiProject United States Executive Orders
- Wikisource:WikiProject Academic Papers/Law and Category:Legal scholarship
- Wikisource:Internship project at New Law College, Pune working on (Laws of India)
