CALIFORNIA EVIDENCE: CIVIL AND CRIMINAL
...Judicial Notice
......Subjects of Judicial Notice: Discretionary
.........Govt Documents/Reports
3 Cards On This Topic:
  • Judicial notice of public record does not include judicial notice of truth of record's contents or make otherwise inadmissible material admissible.
  • AG advisory letter opinion containing disclaimers as to accuracy, not source of "reasonably indisputable accuracy" permitting judicial notice.
  • Court may take judicial notice of Congress'l reports, but evidence contained therein subject to gen'l rules of relevance; portions containing evidence of defects unrelated to defect that caused P's injury improperly admitted.