Via Fortune after Josh Blackman’s blog posting on this subject: “A Supreme Court decision got huge attention this week for a stinging dissent by Justice Sotomayor that some have called the court’s “Black Lives Matter” moment. But the decision is also significant because it contains a strange short phrase — http://goo.gl/3Yq3Nd No, that’s not a typo or a technical snafu. Instead, it’s what appears to be the Supreme Court’s first use of a link shortener in a decision. Google and other companies provide the shorteners as a means to condense unwieldy web addresses. In this case, the “goo.gl” citation, which was used by Justice Elena Kagan, replaces a much longer link to an NBC online story about outstanding police warrants…”

• Related – See also “Link Rot” & Legal Resources on the Web: A 2010 Analysis