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1 Need for Supreme Court Case Stubs
2 Additional work
3 Here is an example Supreme Court case
4 Stubbified version
5 Stubbified version as it appears, without references or categories

[edit] Need for Supreme Court Case Stubs

Many articles have broken links to Supreme Court of the United States cases. For example, Presbyterian Church (USA) links to Jones v. Wolf. Many if not all US Supreme Court cases are listed on Category:Lists of United States Supreme Court cases. The links off of this page include FindLaw links for all cases in the past few decades. I would like to see bot create a stub article for all missing cases that includes a link to the appropriate List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume NNN page and a link to the FindLaw link that's included in that page if one is available.

[edit] Additional work

A category [[Category:United States Supreme Court case stubs]] should be created and each new stub added to that category.
A template [[Template:United States Supreme Court case stubs]] should be created. This stub should be a near-clone of the "this article is a stub" template. This should be included in each new article.
A substitution-template should be created and used by the bot to generate the initial articles. Input to the template will be the names of each litigant, the ussc-template input which includes the year of the case.
Optionally: Only process cases that have at least 1 Wikipedia article linking to them, not counting "list of Supreme Court Case"-type articles. If this is done, the bot will need to be run regularly. I suggest monthly. I think the better option is to create stubs for all articles that have a valid Findlaw link, then re-run the script every year after all Supreme Court opinions for the year are published.
Advanced version: Retrieve and parse the case from Findlaw and fill in more details for the SCOTUSCase template. This is beyond the scope of anything I plan on doing.

[edit] Here is an example Supreme Court case

{{SCOTUSCase
  |Litigants=United Steelworkers v. Weber
  |ArgueDate=March 28
  |ArgueYear=1979
  |DecideDate=June 27
  |DecideYear=1979
  |FullName=United Steelworkers of America, AFL-CIO-CLC v. Weber et al.
  |Citation=93 S. Ct. 705; 35 L. Ed. 2d 147; 1973 U.S. LEXIS 159
  |USVol=443
  |USPage=193
  |Holding=
  |SCOTUS=1975-1981
  |Majority=Brennan
  |JoinMajority=Stewart, White, Marshall, Blackmun
  |Concurrence=Blackmun
  |Dissent=Burger
  |Dissent2=Rehnquist
  |JoinDissent2=Burger
  |LawsApplied=
}}
'''''United Steelworkers of America v. Weber''''', [[Case citation|443 U.S. 193]] ([[1979]]), was a case regarding [[affirmative action]] in which the [[Supreme Court of the United States|United States Supreme Court]] held that the [[Civil Rights Act of 1964]] did not bar employers from favoring women and minorities.  The Court's decision reversed lower courts' rulings in favor of Brian Weber whose lawsuit beginning in 1974 challenged his employer's hiring practices.

==Background==
Brian Weber, a 32 year old laboratory analyst at a chemical plant, was excluded from a job training program that, if completed, would have significantly raised his pay. In an effort to raise the number of black workers in their company, the Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical Corp., the company that Weber worked for, decided to accepts white and black into the training program on a 1 to 1 basis. Upon being rejected from the program, Weber filed a lawsuit, citing Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 as the basis for it.

==The Case==
Lower and federal courts supported Weber's claim that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 banned all forms of racial discrimination in employment whether against blacks or whites. But a 5-2 Supreme Court majority disagreed, arguing that the lower courts' rulings were consistent with the text of the act but not the intent of Congress. Chief Justice [[Warren Burger]] and Justice [[William Rehnquist]] dissented. Chief Justice [[Warren Burger]] said, "Congress expressly prohibited the discrimination against Brian Weber the court approves now." ([[Lewis Powell]] and [[John Paul Stevens]] did not participate in the decision.)

== References ==
<references/>
*[http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,920466,00.html "What the Weber Ruling Does"].  ''Time''.  July 9, 1979.
*[http://www.answers.com/topic/united-steelworkers-of-america-v-weber "United Steelworkers v. Weber."]  ''West's Encyclopedia of American Law.''  The Gale Group, Inc.  1998. 

==External links==
*[http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=US&vol=443&invol=193 Text of the decision] at findlaw.com.  Accessed Jan. 29, 2007.
*Herndon, Randolph K.  [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0012-7086%28198012%292%3A1980%3A6%3C1172%3ATPOSAI%3E2.0.CO%3B2-%23 "The Presence of State Action in United Steelworkers v. Weber."]  ''Duke Law Journal''.  Vol. 1980, No. 6. (Dec., 1980), pp. 1172-1200.  Accessed Jan. 29, 2007.

[[Category:1979 in law]]
[[Category:United States Supreme Court cases]]
[[Category:United Steelworkers]]
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[edit] Stubbified version


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  |Litigants=United Steelworkers v. Weber
  |ArgueDate=
  |ArgueYear=1979
  |DecideDate=
  |DecideYear=1979
  |FullName=
  |Citation=
  |USVol=443
  |USPage=193
  |Holding=
  |SCOTUS=1975-1981
  |Majority=
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  |Concurrence=
  |Dissent=
  |Dissent2=
  |JoinDissent2=
  |LawsApplied=
}}
'''''United Steelworkers of America v. Weber''''', {{ussc|443|193|1979}} is a Supreme Court case.

This article is a [[Supreme Court of the United States]] case stub.  Please improve it.

==Background==


==The Case==

== References ==
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[[Category:1979 in law]]
[[Category:United States Supreme Court cases]]
[[Category:United States Supreme Court case stubs]]