I am writing an article about authentication of e-government
documents in the courts. For the article, I am looking for
anecdotes, at the trial court level, where an attorney has
offered into evidence some documentary evidence of the law –
a case, statute, regulation, agency publication, et cetera - from
an online source, and had the court (or opposing counsel)
refuse to accept the document unless an “authentic” or
“official” version was proffered. If you have any examples of
this occurring, I would really appreciate hearing about it.
I would also like to send this question to several attorney list-
servs, to reach attorneys who do not have librarians. If any of
your attorneys subscribe to list-servs for the California Bar
Association litigation section, the ABA litigation section, or
the ATLA , and you think they would be receptive to a request
to post my question on their list-servs, please let me know.
Thanks in advance – I know there are interesting stories out
there!
Susan Nevelow Mart
Reference Librarian
University of California - Hastings College of the Law
marts@uchastings.edu
415.565.4759
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