Judicial Notice of Adjudicative Facts – Scope. Judicial notice of adjudicative facts is limited to which type of facts?

• A. Legislative facts only
• B. Adjudicative facts only
• C. Both legislative and adjudicative facts
• D. Facts outside the trial record

Answer: (B)

Judicial notice of adjudicative facts covers facts that arise from and are specific to the case—the particular events, times, places, and identities involved in the dispute. These are the facts the court may accept as proven without formal evidence when they are not reasonably in dispute and are readily verifiable or widely known in the jurisdiction. Because these facts pertain to the outcome of the case itself, the scope is limited to adjudicative facts.

Legislative facts, by contrast, are broad background facts about policy, structure, or society that help inform how the law operates. They aren’t the kind of case-specific facts that judicial notice is aimed at, so they aren’t within the scope of adjudicative-fact judicial notice. The option suggesting both types would be too broad, and the option about facts outside the trial record doesn’t capture the distinction between case-specific (adjudicative) and general background (legislative) facts.