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Real Problems With Virtual Authorities

By Matt Conigliaro, Esq.

In the last several years, Florida's appellate courts have begun to utilize online resources as authorities, most often online dictionaries and encyclopedias such as Wikipedia. I recall the first time any Florida or Eleventh Circuit opinion cited Wikipedia -- it was an Eleventh Circuit opinion authored by Judge Tjoflat and discussed in this October 2004 Abstract Appeal post. Times have changed

Full post as published by Abstract Appeal on April 14, 2009 (boomark / email).