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Anybody ever cited to a Google News search performed on a specific day for a specific term? I'd like to show that "militates" isn't the $2-term Appellant claims. A search brings up 46 hits dating back to June 30, including an opinion column in the Dallas Morning News.

My Bluebook has Rule 17.3.2, which is kinda on point, but I was hoping there's something better in more recent versions (mine was published in 1991 Frown).
 
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Why not print out the results and include as an attachment?

John Bradley
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Williamson County, Texas
 
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John,

I don't want appellant screaming I'm bringing in something outside the appellate record. If I can cite to it, I think that shuts him up. I've found a couple of cases where courts refer to the results of their own google searches, but they don't bother with a cite. Stealing from a footnote in a law journal article, I came up with this:

Google News, http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=&ie=UTF-8&q=militate (last visited August 2, 2006).

I like the one I made up better:

Search of www.news.google.com (August 2, 2006) (search for term �militates�)
 
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Well, except that "www.news.google.com" is not the proper URL. Get rid of "www".
 
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Thanks Smile
 
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