Judicial notice is one of the less glamorous parts of motion practice. A request for judicial notice is typically a lower-priority background document, drafted towards the end of the brief-writing ...

Picture this: you’re in court involving a personal injury crash and you want to reference as evidence the fact that Orange Avenue is a roadway that runs North-South. Do you need to ask the court for a ...

In his Evidence column, Michael J. Hutter writes: While a review of cases over the past 20 years reveals that New York courts, following the lead of the federal courts, are taking judicial notice of ...

Cynthia Feathers discusses how New York courts apply judicial notice, illustrating the doctrine’s reach from historical tort cases to contemporary family-law matters cases, and underscores the need ...

No judicial notice for Wikipedia It seems that courts will not take judicial notice of Wikipedia entries. A Texas appellate court declined a defendant's request that the court take notice of Wiki's ...

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