Do you remember the decision that gave prosecutors immunity? I've been toying with ideas for laws concerning malicious prosecution and I'm curious about the basis of the Supreme Court's decision.
Edit: If you're serious about this project you should read through Civil Rights Corp's cases.
You'll learn the most a clever, well-resourced team can push the existing rules in practice to hold governments accountable.
In my unexpert opinion a nonlayer can most efficiently get an impression of how an area of law sort of works by reading decisions from lower-court judges who dispense justice assembly-line style.
When you're reading a Supreme Court decision or a law it's incredibly easy to miss a procudure that makes any remedy inpractical.
For example, you might read through a whole process for deciding the merits of a complex argument a prisoner's civil rights were violated. But you'd be missing that prisoner's lawyers can only make an argument if that prisoner, without a lawyer, wrote the exact right words on a complaint form and handed it to a warden within (for example) two weeks of their rights being violated.
Get used to this search engine. And when you read about a case in the news, look it up. This (or a related resource) is usually how the reporter got their primary sources.
Edit: If you're serious about this project you should read through Civil Rights Corp's cases.
You'll learn the most a clever, well-resourced team can push the existing rules in practice to hold governments accountable.
In my unexpert opinion a nonlayer can most efficiently get an impression of how an area of law sort of works by reading decisions from lower-court judges who dispense justice assembly-line style.
When you're reading a Supreme Court decision or a law it's incredibly easy to miss a procudure that makes any remedy inpractical.
For example, you might read through a whole process for deciding the merits of a complex argument a prisoner's civil rights were violated. But you'd be missing that prisoner's lawyers can only make an argument if that prisoner, without a lawyer, wrote the exact right words on a complaint form and handed it to a warden within (for example) two weeks of their rights being violated.
Get used to this search engine. And when you read about a case in the news, look it up. This (or a related resource) is usually how the reporter got their primary sources.
https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/