Outragedmoderates.org, a political blog edited by St. John's law student Thad Anderson, was cited in two amicus briefs submitted to SCOTUS in the MGM v. Grokster case.

The first amicus brief, submitted by the American Civil Liberties Union cites Anderson's blog twice. On page 12, outragedmoderates.org appears in a discussion of legitimate non-infringing uses of P2P file sharing networks. The format of the citation is as follows:

First citation:
(discussing the outragedmoderates.org website, which contains hundreds of government and court documents and makes them available for download through peer-to-peer networks).

Format: Post-sentence parenthetical citation that includes the blog's main URL and a brief description of the blog.

Second citation:
See http://www.outragedmoderates.org/HowtoUseP2PNetworks.html (last visited Feb. 24, 2005).

Format: Post-sentence citation that includes the url to the particular post at issue, as well as a parenthetical "last vistited" clause.

The Free Software Foundation and New Yorkers for Fair Use brief contains the second double mention of outragedmoderates.org.

First Citation:
In the Table of Authorities, the blog is listed under the Other Materials section, as

Outraged Moderates: Government Document Archive
at http://www.outragedmoderates.org/
GovernmentDocumentLibrary.html (2004) . . . . . . . . . . 11

Format: A table of contents citation that includes the blog's title, the sub-page title, the URL with subdirectory, and the date.

Second Citation:
Footnote 9 . . . see also Outraged Moderates: Government Document Archive at http:
//www.outragedmoderates.org/GovernmentDocumentLibrary.html (2004)

Format: Footnote citation that includes the blog's title, the sub-page title, the URL with subdirectory, and the date.