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Law Tier 3 — Family Indexes

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Law Tier 3 — Family Indexes

This is the Tier 3 (T3) Map of Content (MOC) for the Law library. T3 notes are deep, catalog-style references — long enumerations of statutes, courts, rules, doctrines, and regulatory frameworks that don’t fit naturally into a Tier 2 family page but are load-bearing reference material a working agent needs to look up.

T3 sits between T2 (family overview) and T4 (deep single-topic dives). T3 notes are “catalogs”: breadth-over-depth references intended to be the canonical entry point when an agent needs to know “what are all the X” rather than “how does one specific X work”.

Published T3 catalogs

  • federal-statutes-and-court-system — US Supreme Court composition + history, 13 federal circuits and their character, 94 district courts, specialized courts (CIT, CFC, Tax, Bankruptcy); USC title-by-title statute index (Titles 7–52), CFR overview, major civil-rights statutes (Civil Rights Act 1964, VRA 1965, ADA 1990), business statutes (Securities Act 1933, Sarbanes-Oxley 2002, Dodd-Frank 2010, JOBS Act 2012, CHIPS 2022, IRA 2022), regulatory frameworks (APA 1946, NEPA 1969, environmental statutes), and the four sets of Federal Rules. ~600 lines.

  • scotus-justices-and-circuit-splits — SCOTUS justices: the current nine with background, appointment, voting bloc, and major-vote authorship; major decisions OT 2022–2024; the cert process + shadow docket; circuit-court personalities; the clerkship / Federalist Society pipeline driving judiciary composition. Circuit splits: active SCOTUS-pending splits by subject matter (qualified immunity, Chevron post-Loper Bright, Section 230 scope, FAA / NLRA preemption, ADA Title III website accessibility, Title VII religious exemptions, Second Amendment Bruen application, Fourth Amendment digital-search, antitrust market definition), with circuit alignments and the open question each presents.

  • treaties-and-regulatory-agencies — Treaties: the US treaty-making framework (Article II ratification vs executive agreements); UN Charter 1945; VCLT 1969; Geneva Conventions 1949 + Protocols; ICCPR + ICESCR 1966; Refugee Convention 1951 + 1967 Protocol; UNCLOS 1982; WTO/GATT 1947 → 1994; NAFTA → USMCA 2020; Paris Agreement 2015; New York Convention 1958; Hague conventions; BITs; US ratification status. Regulatory agencies: Cabinet departments + independent commissions with statutory authority, administrators, and recent rulemakings (post-Loper Bright 2024) — SEC, CFTC, FRB, FDIC, OCC, NCUA, CFPB; EPA, FERC, NRC; FTC, DOJ Antitrust; FCC, FAA, NHTSA; EEOC, NLRB, OSHA, DOL; HHS, FDA, CMS, CDC; USPTO, Copyright Office; plus the Federal Register / CFR / RIN rulemaking infrastructure.

Cross-references

Law T3 catalogs link to T2 family pages for context:

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