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Is Wikipedia A Reliable Legal Authority? (2018 Update)

Is Wikipedia A Reliable Legal Authority? (2018 Update)

by Keith Lee | Case Law

Back in 2014, a Twitter exchange with Judge Dillard prompted an article on AboveTheLaw discussing the reliability of Wikipedia as a resource.1I would be remiss not to mention that in a bit of I-see-what-you-did-there, shortly after our Twitter exchange and my post,...
Is Wikipedia A Reliable Legal Authority? (2018 Update)

Is Wikipedia A Reliable Legal Authority? (2017 Update)

by Keith Lee | Case Law

Back in 2014, a Twitter exchange with Judge Dillard prompted an article on AboveTheLaw discussing the reliability of Wikipedia as a resource. Which was an update to a post I wrote back in 2011. As it’s been a few years, it’s time to see how some recent...

Then Again, Maybe Wikipedia IS a Proper Legal Authority

by Keith Lee | Case Law

Surprise, surprise, Courts seem to be split on the issue of whether or not Wikipedia is a proper legal source. In the previous post, people were discussing this link on Wikipedia: Which is a listing of holdings from Courts that have cited Wikipedia in various...

Reminder From Fed. Dist. Court: Wikipedia is Not a Proper Legal Authority

by Keith Lee | Case Law

Just saw this over at Legal Writing Prof Blog. The court notes here that defense counsel appears to have cobbled much of his statement of the law governing ineffective assistance of counsel claims by cutting and pasting, without citation, from the Wikipedia web...

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