Vanginderen v. Cornell University

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NOTICE: Request for Judicial Notice in support re 7 MOTION to Strike Plaintiff's Complaint by Cornell University (Attachments: # 1 Exhibits in Support of Special Motion to Strike# 2 Declaration of Valerie Cross Dorn in Support of Request for Judicial Notice# 3 Declaration of Anne Richardson Kenney in Support of Defendant's Request for Judicial Notice)(Deixler, Bert) Modified on 11/5/2007 - edited text (vet, ).

Vanginderen v. Cornell University

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1 NELSON E. ROTH, SBN 67350 [e-mail] 2 CORNELL UNIVERSITY 300 CCC Building 3 Garden Avenue Ithaca, New York 14853-2601 4 Telephone: [phone] Facsimile: [phone] 5 BERT H. DEIXLER, SBN 70614 6 [e-mail] CHARLES S. SIMS, New York Attorney Registration No. 1535640 7 admitted pro hac vice [e-mail] 8 CLIFFORD S. DAVIDSON, SBN 246119 [e-mail] 9 PROSKAUER ROSE LLP 2049 Century Park East, 32nd Floor 10 Los Angeles, CA 90067-3206 Telephone: [phone] Facsimile: [phone] 12 13 14 16 17 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28
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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA Plaintiff, v. Defendant. ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) Case No. 07-CV-2045-BTM-JMA Hon. Barry T. Moskowitz DEFENDANT'S REQUEST FOR JUDICIAL NOTICE IN SUPPORT OF SPECIAL MOTION TO STRIKE PLAINTIFF'S COMPLAINT PURSUANT TO SECTION 425.16 OF THE CALIFORNIA CODE OF CIVIL PROCEDURE [Per chambers, no oral argument unless requested by the Court] [Special Motion to Strike and Declarations of Valerie Cross Dorn and Anne Richardson Kenney filed concurrently] Hearing Date: December 21, 2007 Time: 11:00 a.m. Place: Courtroom 15 Action Filed: October 1, 2007

15 KEVIN VANDGINDEREN,

18 CORNELL UNIVERSITY,

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Pursuant to Federal Rule of Evidence 201, defendant Cornell University Exhibit A: Ithaca City Court records pertaining to The People of the State of Exhibit B: The archived image of the March 17, 1983 Cornell Chronicle

2 requests that the Court take judicial notice of the following: 4 New York v. Kevin Vanginderen, Docket #D46-171. 6 that is the subject of this litigation. The image is available at 7 http://ecommons.library.cornell.edu/bitstream/1813/5350/14/014_24.pdf. The 8 allegedly libelous statement is contained on page 6 of the issue (page 15 of Exhibit 9 B). 10 Exhibit C: September 3, 2007 e-mail from plaintiff Kevin Vanginderen 11 ([e-mail]) to the Cornell University Library, in which Plaintiff 12 requested that the March 17, 1983 Cornell Chronicle story be removed (see Compl. 13 ¶ 2). 14 16 Exhibit D: The Order to Show Cause issued by the County Court of Judicial notice is proper because the documents for which this Request is 15 Tompkins County and the moving papers submitted in support thereof. 17 made are "capable of accurate and ready determination by resort to sources whose 18 accuracy cannot reasonably be questioned." Fed. R. Evid. 201(b)(2); Lee v. City of 19 Los Angeles, 250 F.3d 668, 689-90 (9th Cir. 2001) (taking judicial notice of a state 20 court's records); Fitzgerald v. Penthouse Intern., Ltd., 525 F.Supp. 585, 595 n.41 21 (D. Md. 1981), aff'd in part, rev'd in part on other grounds 691 F.2d 666 (4th Cir. 22 / / / 23 / / / 24 / / / 25 / / / 26 / / / 27 / / / 28 / / /
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1 1982) (taking judicial notice, in defamation case, of photocopy of magazine article 2 in question). 3 4 DATED: November 2, 2007 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28
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BERT H. DEIXLER CHARLES S. SIMS CLIFFORD S. DAVIDSON PROSKAUER ROSE LLP NELSON E. ROTH CORNELL UNIVERSITY s/Bert H. Deixler Bert H. Deixler Attorneys for Defendant, CORNELL UNIVERSITY

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