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"US Courts - Internet Materials in Opinions: Citations and Hyperlinking"

Posted by Sabrina I. Pacifici: "The Third Branch: "The Judicial Conference has issued a series of "suggested practices" to assist courts in the use of Internet materials in opinions. The recommendations follow a pilot project conducted by circuit librarians who captured and preserved webpages cited in opinions over a six-month period...The guidelines suggest that, if a webpage is cited, chambers staff preserve the citation by downloading a copy of the site's page and filing it as an attachment to the judicial opinion in the Judiciary's Case Management/Electronic Case Files System. The attachment, like the opinion, would be retrievable on a non-fee basis through the Public Access to Court Electronic Records system." 

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Source: beSpacific - Accurate, focused law and technology news by Sabrina I. Pacifici. 19 August 2009 Copyright ©2002-2009. BeSpacific LLC. All Rights Reserved. Subscribe <http://www.bespacific.com/mt/subscribe.html>.

Full post as published by Stark County Law Library Blawg on August 20, 2009 (boomark / email).