{"id":4507,"date":"2017-08-10T15:53:58","date_gmt":"2017-08-10T15:53:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/?page_id=4507"},"modified":"2017-08-10T15:53:58","modified_gmt":"2017-08-10T15:53:58","slug":"rule-201-judicial-notice-of-adjudicative-facts","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/?page_id=4507","title":{"rendered":"Rule 201 \u2013 Judicial Notice of Adjudicative Facts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(a) <strong>Scope<\/strong>. This rule governs judicial notice of an adjudicative fact only, not a legislative fact.<\/p>\n<p>(b) <strong>Kinds of Facts That May Be Judicially Noticed<\/strong>. The court may judicially notice a fact that is not subject to reasonable dispute because it:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">(1) is generally known within the trial court\u2019s territorial jurisdiction; or<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">(2) can be accurately and readily determined from sources whose accuracy cannot reasonably be questioned.<\/p>\n<p>(c) <strong>Taking Notice<\/strong>. The court:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">(1) may take judicial notice on its own; or<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">(2) must take judicial notice if a party requests it and the court is supplied with the necessary information.<\/p>\n<p>(d) <strong>Timing<\/strong>. The court may take judicial notice at any stage of the proceeding.<\/p>\n<p>(e) <strong>Opportunity to Be Heard<\/strong>. On timely request, a party is entitled to be heard on the propriety of taking judicial notice and the nature of the fact to be noticed. If the court takes judicial notice before notifying a party, the party, on request, is still entitled to be heard.<\/p>\n<p>(f) <strong>Instructing the Jury<\/strong>. In a civil case, the court must instruct the jury to accept the noticed fact as conclusive. In a criminal case, the court must instruct the jury that it may or may not accept the noticed fact as conclusive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(a) Scope. This rule governs judicial notice of an adjudicative fact only, not a legislative fact. (b) Kinds of Facts That May Be Judicially Noticed. The court may judicially notice a fact that is not subject to reasonable dispute because it: (1) is generally known within the trial court\u2019s territorial jurisdiction; or (2) can be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/?page_id=4507\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Rule 201 \u2013 Judicial Notice of Adjudicative Facts<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":4475,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4507","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4507"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4508,"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4507\/revisions\/4508"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}