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-in-published-decision/
Pine On Jun 16, 2015 5:35 PM, "Salvador A" <salvador1...@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! > > [1] > > https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tribunal_Federal_de_Justicia_Fiscal_y_Administrativa > -- > *Salvador Alcántar* > *@salvador_alc* > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
