Request for Judicial Notice

Templates and Forms

Free form. Use a Request for Judicial Notice when you need a judge to rule a generally recognized fact to be true or the wording of a law to be an accurate copy. When a judge takes judicial notice of something it no longer needs to be formally proven and it cannot be contested. This is frequently used to admit court records from related cases; laws, regulations, municipal ordinances, and legislative history; or indisputable facts such as the distance between two places, the date of a national election, or the dictionary definition of a word.

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