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US Supreme Court Cites a Blog

May 19, 2005

US Constitutional scholars scour every corner of US Supreme Court decisions.  Believe it or not, they even debate and agonize over footnotes. Which is why I was intrigued by an email received from one our graduates that the US Supreme Court had cited a blog in a recent decision.  This is just the thing blogging needs right now — some validation from the High Court that blog content is worthy of consideration in matters of Constitutional Law.

He gave me a link to this article which led me to this blog or bLAWg and finally to the decision itself only to find out that the citation (footnote no. 4 of Justice Stevens’ dissent) merely says that a certain document can be found in Prof. Berman’s Sentencing Law and Policy Blog.

Oh, well.  I can dream, can’t I?

Posted by JJ Disini at 7:18 am | permalink

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your wish will probably happen once judges start blogging. in the meantime, blogs are being validated in other ways. check out rambling librarian's post on " IBM's Blogging Guidelines.

Posted by vonjobi at May 19, 2005, 8:28 am

Our Supreme Court has already cited a website in one of its decisions regarding malpractice. Who knows in the near future the Court may cite a blog?-so dream on…..

Posted by Atty. Bikoyski at May 20, 2005, 5:20 pm

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