{"id":286,"date":"2015-08-04T15:26:16","date_gmt":"2015-08-04T15:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/perma\/?p=286"},"modified":"2015-08-04T15:26:16","modified_gmt":"2015-08-04T15:26:16","slug":"justice-alito-and-link-rot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/perma\/2015\/08\/04\/justice-alito-and-link-rot\/","title":{"rendered":"Justice Alito and Link Rot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Link rot is a problem for all scholars, even Justices on the Supreme Court. \u00a0A recent study by the Harvard Law Review found that <a href=\"http:\/\/harvardlawreview.org\/2014\/03\/perma-scoping-and-addressing-the-problem-of-link-and-reference-rot-in-legal-citations\/\">25% of links cited in Supreme Court opinions had rotted.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-287\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/perma\/files\/2015\/08\/Screen-Shot-2015-08-04-at-11.01.53-AM-300x178.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2015-08-04 at 11.01.53 AM\" width=\"426\" height=\"253\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/perma\/files\/2015\/08\/Screen-Shot-2015-08-04-at-11.01.53-AM-300x178.png 300w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/perma\/files\/2015\/08\/Screen-Shot-2015-08-04-at-11.01.53-AM-1024x608.png 1024w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/perma\/files\/2015\/08\/Screen-Shot-2015-08-04-at-11.01.53-AM-676x401.png 676w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/perma\/files\/2015\/08\/Screen-Shot-2015-08-04-at-11.01.53-AM.png 1886w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 426px) 100vw, 426px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association (2011) provides a\u00a0particularly salient example of the problem. In his opinion, Justice Alito cited www.ssnat.com, a site that has since been altered, and now provides a commentary on the transience of information on the internet:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/perma\/files\/2015\/08\/Screen-Shot-2015-08-04-at-11.02.09-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-288\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/perma\/files\/2015\/08\/Screen-Shot-2015-08-04-at-11.02.09-AM-300x168.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2015-08-04 at 11.02.09 AM\" width=\"430\" height=\"241\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/perma\/files\/2015\/08\/Screen-Shot-2015-08-04-at-11.02.09-AM-300x168.png 300w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/perma\/files\/2015\/08\/Screen-Shot-2015-08-04-at-11.02.09-AM-1024x574.png 1024w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/perma\/files\/2015\/08\/Screen-Shot-2015-08-04-at-11.02.09-AM-676x379.png 676w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/perma\/files\/2015\/08\/Screen-Shot-2015-08-04-at-11.02.09-AM.png 1958w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 430px) 100vw, 430px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Perma.cc enables scholars to ensure their links point to the sources that they intend, sign up today at\u00a0https:\/\/perma.cc!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Link rot is a problem for all scholars, even Justices on the Supreme Court. \u00a0A recent study by the Harvard Law Review found that 25% of links cited in Supreme Court opinions had rotted. &nbsp; Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association (2011) provides a\u00a0particularly salient example of the problem. 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