User:Eastlaw

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To whom it may concern:

Due to school exams and various personal problems, I will be on Wikibreak indefinitely. I apologize for any inconvenience which this may cause anyone, but I cannot contribute to Wikipedia in any truly meaningful fashion during this time.

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Contents 1 Background 2 Interests 2.1 Projects I'm involved with 2.2 My Sandbox 2.3 My Userboxes, Barnstars, etc. 2.4 My Edit History 2.5 To Do List (long-term) 2.6 Drafting space 3 Contributions 3.1 Articles I've Started 3.1.1 Old English cases 3.1.2 U.S. Supreme Court cases 3.1.3 Other 3.2 Articles I have substantially modified or contributed to 3.2.1 Articles I'm currently working on 3.3 Categories I've Started 3.4 Pages I should clean up/modify 3.4.1 Old English cases 3.5 Other (less important) stuff I should do 4 Other Useful Pages

[edit] Background

• Year of birth: 1979 CE
• Birthplace: Fair Lawn, New Jersey
• Occupation: Law Student
• Religion: Atheism--but I'm not one of those militant types
• Education: Bachelor of Arts in Economics, University at Albany, 2001
  • I also have a bunch of graduate credits from Montclair State University
  • I am currently in my third year of law school at Northeastern University School of Law

[edit] Interests

• Law
• Geography
• Metal music

[edit] Projects I'm involved with

• WikiProject Law
• WikiProject U.S. Supreme Court cases
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Albums
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Metal

[edit] My Sandbox

• User:Eastlaw/sandbox

[edit] My Userboxes, Barnstars, etc.

• User:Eastlaw/userboxes

[edit] My Edit History

• Special:Contributions/Eastlaw

[edit] To Do List (long-term)

• User:Eastlaw/todo

[edit] Drafting space

• User:Eastlaw/draft

[edit] Contributions

[edit] Articles I've Started

[edit] Old English cases

• Paradine v. Jane, King's Bench, Mich. 23 Car. Banco Regis., Hil. 22 Car. Rot. 1178, & 1179, Aleyn 26, 82 Eng. Rep. 897 (1647)
• Keeble v. Hickeringill, Queen's Bench, 11 East 574, 103 Eng. Rep. 1127 (1707)
• Taylor v. Caldwell, King's Bench, 3 B. & S. 826, 122 Eng. Rep. 309 (1863)
• Krell v. Henry, 2 K.B. 740 (Court of Appeal, 1903)

[edit] U.S. Supreme Court cases

• Hayburn's Case, 2 U.S. 409 (1792)
• United States v. Hudson and Goodwin, 11 U.S. 32 (1812)
• City of Elizabeth v. American Nicholson Pavement Co., 97 U.S. 126 (1878)
• Egbert v. Lippmann, 104 U.S. 333 (1881)
• American Well Works Co. v. Layne & Bowler Co., 241 U.S. 257 (1916)
• Irwin v. Gavit, 268 U.S. 161 (1925)
• Old Colony Trust Co. v. Commissioner, 279 U.S. 716 (1929)
• United States v. Kirby Lumber Co., 284 U.S. 1 (1931)
• Fox Film Corp. v. Muller, 296 U.S. 207 (1935)
• Clearfield Trust Co. v. United States, 318 U.S. 363 (1943)
• Burford v. Sun Oil Co., 319 U.S. 315 (1943)
• Securities and Exchange Commission v. W. J. Howey Co., 328 U.S. 293 (1946)
• Mullane v. Central Hanover Bank & Trust Co., 339 U.S. 306 (1950)
• Cooper v. Aaron, 358 U.S. 1 (1958)
• Graham v. John Deere Co., 383 U.S. 1 (1966)
• Cort v. Ash, 422 U.S. 66 (1975)
• Colorado River Water Conservation District v. United States, 424 U.S. 800 (1976)
• Virginia State Pharmacy Board v. Virginia Citizens Consumer Council, 425 U.S. 748 (1976)
• TSC Industries, Inc. v. Northway, Inc., 426 U.S. 438 (1976)
• Kassel v. Consolidated Freightways Corp., 450 U.S. 662 (1981)
• Northern Pipeline Co. v. Marathon Pipe Line Co., 458 U.S. 50 (1982)
• United Building & Construction Trades Council v. Mayor and Council of Camden, 465 U.S. 208 (1984)
• Tennessee v. Garner, 471 U.S. 1 (1985)
• Commodity Futures Trading Commission v. Schor, 478 U.S. 833 (1986)
• Chauffeurs, Teamsters, and Helpers Local No. 391 v. Terry, 494 U.S. 558 (1990)
• Cottage Savings Association v. Commissioner, 499 U.S. 554 (1991)
• Qualitex Co. v. Jacobson Products Co., Inc., 514 U.S. 159 (1995)
• Exxon Mobil Corp. v. Saudi Basic Industries Corp., 544 U.S. 280 (2005)

[edit] Other

• The Grimoire of Exalted Deeds (heavy metal magazine)
• Mind Over Four
• Grant Gilmore
• Back of the Hill (MBTA station)
• Mission Park (MBTA station)
• Church of Misery
• United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri
• United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas

[edit] Articles I have substantially modified or contributed to

• Adequate and independent state ground
• Hollingsworth v. Virginia, 3 U.S. 378 (1798)
• Saenz v. Roe, 526 U.S. 489 (1999)

[edit] Articles I'm currently working on

• Delaware Superior Court
• Privileges and Immunities Clause
• Speech or Debate Clause
• Functionality doctrine
• Unfair competition
• Automatic stay
• Louisiana law
• Brobeck, Phleger, and Harrison
• New York Secretary of State

[edit] Categories I've Started

• Category:Dormant Commerce Clause cases
• Category:Delaware State Court System
• Category:Article Four case law
• Category:United States bankruptcy case law
• Category:United States land use case law
• Category:United States federal housing legislation

[edit] Pages I should clean up/modify

• Pendent jurisdiction
• Tahoe-Sierra Preservation Council, Inc. v. Tahoe Regional Planning Agency, 535 U.S. 302 (2002)
• Rogers v. Tennessee, 532 U.S. 451 (2001)
• Plaut v. Spendthrift Farm, Inc., 514 U.S. 211 (1995)
• Dolan v. City of Tigard, 512 U.S. 374 (1994)
• Lucas v. South Carolina Coastal Council, 505 U.S. 1003 (1992)
• Penn Central Transportation Co. v. New York City, 438 U.S. 104 (1978)
• Beauharnais v. Illinois, 343 U.S. 250 (1952)
• Pennsylvania Coal Co. v. Mahon, 260 U.S. 393 (1922)
• Shreveport Rate Cases, 234 U.S. 342 (1914)
• Head Money cases, 112 U.S. 580 (1884)
• Holy Trinity Church v. U.S., link from Justia
• Osborn v. Bank of the United States, 22 U.S. 738 (1824)
• List of notable United States state supreme court cases
• List of United States Supreme Court cases

[edit] Old English cases

• Dickinson v. Dodds, L.R. 2 Ch. D. 463 (Chancery Division, Court of Appeal, 1876) Link to case

[edit] Other (less important) stuff I should do

[edit] Other Useful Pages

Special:Newpages
Help:Editor
Wikipedia:Template messages
Wikipedia:Proposed deletion
Template:SCOTUSCase
Category:Law templates
Category:United States navigational boxes
Category:Citation templates
Wikipedia:Requested articles/Applied arts and sciences/Law