> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mariann Storck [SMTP:Mstorck@gklaw.com]
> Sent: Friday, September 18, 1998 12:49 PM
> To: DMack@FreebornPeters.com
> Subject: Re: RE: KeyCite Errors
>
> Debra,
> I think you should post this to the list.
> Mariann
>
> >>> "Mack, Debra" <DMack@FreebornPeters.com> 09/18 9:21 AM >>>
> Mariann:
>
> I recently ran a Westcheck on a case that had been red-flagged by
> KeyCite. I found the same thing you did -- no discernable reason for
> the flag turned up in Shepard's. The Westlaw person to whom I
> presented
> this said that it was most likely that the red flag occured because
> the,
> I think, Sixth Circuit, in whose jurisdiction the original case fell,
> had issued a later opinion with critical language. However, the Sixth
> Circuit did not explicitly or implicitly overturn, vacate, or
> otherwise
> render the lower court's opinion invalid. I spent a fair amount of
> time
> tracking this information down and was a bit annoyed to find that the
> red flag was actually a red herring.
>
> Debra Mack
> Library Services Manager
> Freeborn & Peters
> Chicago, IL
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Mariann Storck [SMTP:Mstorck@gklaw.com]
> > Sent: Friday, September 18, 1998 8:34 AM
> > To: law-lib@ucdavis.edu
> > Subject: KeyCite Errors
> >
> > Good Morning,
> > There has been some discussion in my firm about KeyCite results
> where
> > a red flag is shown but nothing is found to warrant a red flag. A
> > cross check with Shepards indicated no negative history. Also, the
> > reverse, where KeyCite showed no negative history but Shepard's did.
> > And, in a more recent situation, a citation appeared as 761 Wis2d
> 761.
> > Wis 2d's currently number 212 in hard copy. Is anyone else finding
> > these kinds of errors?
> > We're getting rather nervious about using KeyCite here.
> > Mariann Storck
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