On 19/12/06, Sarah slimvirgin@gmail.com wrote:
On 12/18/06, zero 0000 nought_0000@yahoo.com wrote:
Perhaps there is another useful way to look at it: consider the legal database to be "the" source, rather than a collection of sources. Can I say something like "Legal opinions found in the LawIsUs database uniformly favor Y"? (The wording may need tweaking.)
The problem is that material we use as sources must be available to the general public, and it's not clear that we can expect the public to have access to a legal database.
Er, what on earth? No, rubbish. It's the source, it's checkable.
Also, we have to depend on you having conducted the search correctly, which you may not have done if you have no legal education; and we have to depend on you correctly describing the opinion that you say is uniformly favored, which you may also not have done.
That's a separate issue.
- d.