Wikipedia "Not a Reliable Source of Information" For Judicial Notice

Posted on April 24, 2009 by Jody Nathan

A New Jersey judge who allowed a lawyer to plug an evidentiary gap with a Wikipedia page has been reversed on the ground that the online encyclopedia that "anyone can edit" is not a reliable source of information.

http://www.law.com/jsp/legaltechnology/pubArticleLT.jsp?id=1202430073269

This may be a good opinion where there is a hotly contested fact. But then, I don't think that judicial notice is appropriate for any hotly contested fact.  A study compared Wikipedia with the Encyclopedia Britannica for accuracy, and considered  them to be equal.

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