To the best of my knowledge, the US Supreme Court has yet to cite Wikipedia, but US Federal appeals courts have done so. Also, a state supreme court cited Wikipedia prominently in a decision about insurance coverage: http://abbottlawfirm.com/blog/2012/08/16/utah-supreme-court-cites-wikipedia-...
Pine On Jun 16, 2015 5:35 PM, "Salvador A" salvador1983@gmail.com wrote:
Hi folks!
This month one mexican federal court generated an interesting case law related to use of Wikipedia as source of knowledge on trials, specially in law resolutions. The tribunal that solved this was the "Tribunal Federal de Justicia Fiscal y Administrativa". This court is not the supreme court of Mexico but is the most important tribunal after that one in all the matter related to tax and administrative law and its precedents are binding for all mexican administrative authorities and al the judges on administrative and fiscal law.
The case law is the number VII-J-SS-191 and you can read it in the next link:
(only in Spanish)
http://sctj.tfjfa.gob.mx/SCJI/assembly/detalleTesis?idTesis=41716
The title is at the same time a brief of the content of the precedent, and it can be translated in this way:
*"Wikipedia".- The information that is obtained from this website can help to elucidate some controversial matter, thence the courtrooms of this tribunal may use it when ruling.*
Inside the text the court makes a fair clarication: "*It must not be the only source of knowledge in which the resolutions are based on [...] the judges must care about gathering diversity of sources of information such as specialized books, encyclopedia, including the electronic ones, [...] and others*."
Maybe is just a curiosity, but for me is ilustrative of the good reputation that our work is getting even in some closed circles as the law practice. At least in Mexico is not common to see a court quoting Wikipedia, but maybe this first precedent might change the things.
Do you know other similar case laws?
Regards!
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https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tribunal_Federal_de_Justicia_Fiscal_y_Administ...
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