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Hi, the Law commons is regrettably lacking. There are multiple Law and Legal user bases in existence, such as:
http://www.freebase.com/view/user/skud/legal http://www.freebase.com/view/user/tsegaran/legal
May I request a schema review for the purpose of promoting some of these types to Commons? We can use types such as Judge and Legal case and Court Ruling.
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I'd like to request to add properties to Legal Case to capture a case's judge(s) and their opinions on the case. Higher courts have multiple judges and the final verdict is by vote of majority from all the member judges. It would be good to reciprocate case data from the Judge type.
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+1, though it shouldnt be here. this type is for civil cases (right skud?). I've made a general 'legal case' here, please recip it
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Does the legal case type also cover criminal cases?
(If so, expecting a type of 'litigant' for defender and accuser wouldn't be correct)
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I would also suggest a "kind" property with "civil" and "criminal" options to facilitate searching/filtering. Any case is either civil or criminal.
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this schema is no longer supported ive made one here in the more law base
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I would add a "Congress" property to specify in which session of Congress a bill was introduced. Perhaps we can think of a better name to make the concept less ambiguous.
For example, HR 333 was introduced during the 110th Congress.
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For Judge type, example: Sonia Sotomayer was appointed by President George H. W. Bush in 1992 to U.S. District Court. Appointed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit by Pres. Bill Clinton in 1997.
Also, do we want a 'replaced by' property, in particular for the U.S. Supreme Court? David Souter was replaced by Sonia Sotomayor in Aug 8 2009.
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There is a general schema for appointments already.
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