On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 10:03 AM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
On 15/02/2008, Chris Howie cdhowie@gmail.com wrote:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/15/nyregion/15myspace.html?ref=nyregion
"Judge Sciarrino's order, which managed to quote both Wikipedia and 'Hamlet,' meanwhile served as something of a primer for the technologically challenged."
It's quite common for Wikipedia to be cited for background information by both judges and lawyers. I'm not sure I would do so personally...
I'd never heard of that happening.
As for that specific case, how is that newsworthy? Who would ever think that contacting someone on MySpace didn't constitute contacting them?
No clue. I'm not so much interested in the case itself, more the fact that the judge cited Wikipedia in his order.