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Google News	Mon 29th January 2007, 3:40am Post #1
RSS Feed Reader Group: Bots Posts: 3,147 Joined: Mon 3rd Apr 2006, 10:04am Member No.: 94	<img src=http://news.google.com/news?imgefp=BMDRvx_uC7YJ&imgurl=graphics10.nytimes.com/images/2007/01/28/business/0129-pg1-subPANTS.jpg width=34 height=79 alt="" border=1>Courts Turn to Wikipedia, but Selectively New York Times, NY - 8 minutes ago By NOAM COHEN. When a court-appointed special master last year rejected the claim of an Alabama couple that their daughter had suffered seizures after a ...

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Yahoo! News	Mon 29th January 2007, 4:40pm Post #2
RSS Feed Group: Bots Posts: 5,317 Joined: Thu 18th May 2006, 11:54am Member No.: 193	Professors at most major universities frown upon research papers that cite Wikipedia as a resource, given the socially driven nature of the site. The United States judicial system, however, seems to believe that using Wikipedia as a reference in court rulings is a good idea. All told, more than 100 judicial rulings have reference Wikipedia in some fashion. The U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, ... Article: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/searc...oesOnTrial.html

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