**GLITCH in the MATRIX: Supreme Court Ruling Cites a Case That Doesn’t Exist—And the Justices Can’t Explain It**
GLITCH IN THE MATRIX: Supreme Court Ruling Cites a Case That Doesn’t Exist—And the Justices Can’t Explain It
Washington, D.C. — In what legal scholars are calling the “most bizarre footnote in Supreme Court history,” a newly released 6-3 opinion contains a citation to a precedent that, according to every federal database, never happened.
The ruling, Doe v. United Data Systems, references Marbury v. Morrison (1972) as the controlling authority for digital privacy. The only problem? There is no Marbury v. Morrison. No docket number. No law review article. Not even a typo in a clerk’s memo.