Legal Opinion
General Electric Capital Corporation v. Lease Resolution Corporation
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided October 24, 1997No. 96-2310PublishedCited by 791 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KANNE, Circuit Judge.
On May 11, 1995, the district court dismissed two counts of General Electric Capital Corporation’s (“GE Capital”) fourth amended complaint for failure to state claims upon which relief may be granted. In making its determination, the court took judicial notice of facts from a prior unrelated proceeding and from a private document submitted in that proceeding. By taking judicial notice without determining that the facts were undisputed and that the sources relied upon have an accuracy that cannot reasonably be questioned, the district court erred. See Fed.R.Evid. 201(b).…
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