Closed freelawbot closed 10 years ago
Updated all old SCOTUS cases to move the West Citation to the correct field, and to make the display changes. All changes from this bug should be live now.
Original Comment By: Mike Lissner
Some major progress on this bug today:
I also added the start and end dates for courts into the DB for all the above courts. Seems like useful information, especially once the API gets up and running. Only missing date is the Emergency Court of Appeals abolishment date (some time in 1961).
Marking as resolved. Italics can get pushed to a new bug if desired, and remaining tasks will be done soon.
Original Comment By: Mike Lissner
More citation listings:
Original Comment By: Mike Lissner
I agree with solution steps 1-3. I disagree with display step 1--I've long wanted just the case names italicized and everything else regular font. This also means I disagree with part of display step 4--let's not italicize the date parenthetical either, if we can help it.
Standard Abbreviations:
Original Comment By: Brian Carver
I'm finally getting around to dealing with this, since it needs to be resolved before I import F2 or F3. This problem is both in the database and in the front end.
The current status of the DB is as follows:
The solution I propose for the database is to:
I'm almost done with getting meta data from F2 ready to go into the system. Once it's ready, we will get the docket numbers and West citations for ~1950 to 1993.
On the display side, the following changes should be made:
For that last point, I need to know the correct abbreviations of the courts. I presume 1st Cir to 11th Cir are predictable, but I don't know the following courts off-hand:
For now, I'm assuming Lexis Nexis doesn't exist, as that makes things more complicated still, we don't have any Lexis citations, and I don't anticipate having such citations any time soon.
Any points I've missed?
Original Comment By: Mike Lissner
More on this bug can be found in an email conversation dated 2010/04/29, with subject "Various questions."
Original Comment By: Mike Lissner
Especially if we are going to import resource.org documents, the search results and opinion page(s) should display the West Citation if it is in our database, and if not, then the Lexis citation, and then if not, just the case number.
Right now we just provide case number for everything, which is really the third-best option where other information is available.