Blixseth v. Kirschner (In Re Yellowstone Mountain Club, LLC)

MEMORANDUM of DECISION

RALPH B. KIRSCHER, Bankruptcy Judge.

INTRODUCTION

Rule 9017, F.R.B.P., provides that the Federal Rules of Evidence apply in cases under the Bankruptcy Code. It is a commonly-accepted practice to take “judicial notice” of a court’s records. See 3 J. Weinstein & M. Berger, Weinstein’s Evidence ¶¶ 201[03] at 201-35 to -40 (1992). The practice is particularly useful in bankruptcy litigation in which individual adversary proceedings and contested matters, each of which is procedurally distinct and has its own record, all occur within, and are affected by, the context of the…