Legally Citing Sites

Ken Strutin discusses simple guidelines for determining whether you should cite internet sites in your legal research. From 1998 to 2003 there have been 68 separate judicial opinions with citations to Internet sources, and a total of 103 unique Web site citations in published New York court opinions: "A review of these opinions shows that judges have relied on Web sources for primary legal materials, facts, statistics, journal articles, reports and government documents. Courts are also using Internet sources to take judicial notice of facts and for background information."