On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 1:55 AM, 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."
And not for the first time. In fact, we even have a whole page of these:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_as_a_court_source
<shameless plug> I also blogged about a similar subject last year </shameless plug>:
http://thoughtsfordeletion.blogspot.com/2007/03/how-do-they-use-us-let-me-co...
The article doesn't seem to mention how Wikipedia was used in the court case, but it was probably to describe the way Myspace works, using Wikipedia essentially as a primer for the topic at hand, much as one would reference a dictionary if, say, a particular word in a document were significant in a court case.