The Memory Hole - NYT Aug 17 2006

The ruling that stopped the Florida recount and handed the presidency to George W. Bush is disappearing down the legal world’s version of the memory hole, the slot where, in George Orwell’s “1984,” government workers disposed of politically inconvenient records. The Supreme Court has not cited it once since it was decided, and when Justice Antonin Scalia, who loves to hold forth on court precedents, was asked about it at a forum earlier this year, he snapped, “Come on, get over it.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/15/opinion/15tues4.html

This one surprised me because the writer actually went to the trouble of explaining the reference; most of the times I've seen memory hole, Big Brother, Newspeak, etc., there has been no explicit citation of "1984."