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5165497 PLAINTIFF'S REQUEST FOR JUDICIAL NOTICE
IRELL & MANELLA LLP
David A. Schwarz (State Bar No. 159376)[email protected]
1800 Avenue of the Stars, Ste. 900
Los Angeles, CA 900674276Tel: 3102771010
Fax: 3102037199
PETA FOUNDATIONJeffrey S. Kerr (admittedpro hac vice)
1536 16th Street NWWashington, DC 20036
Tel: 2025402171
Fax: 2025402208
Matthew Strugar (State Bar No. 232951)
[email protected] Bernstein (State Bar No. 230505)[email protected]
2154 W. Sunset Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90026Tel: 3237392701
Fax: 2134841648
Attorneys for Plaintiff
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA
SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION
NARUTO, a Crested Macaque, by and through
his Next Friends, PEOPLE FOR THEETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS,
INC., and ANTJE ENGELHARDT, Ph.D.
Plaintiff,
vs.
DAVID JOHN SLATER, an individual,
BLURB, INC., a Delaware corporation, and
WILDLIFE PERSONALITIES, LTD., aUnited Kingdom private limited company,
Defendants.
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Case No.: 15-cv-4324-WHO
PLAINTIFFS REQUEST FOR JUDICIAL
NOTICE
Judge: Hon. William H. Orrick
Date: January 6, 2016Time: 2:00 p.m.
Courtroom: 2, 17th Floor
Complaint filed September 21, 2015
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Plaintiff Naruto (Plaintiff), by and through his next friends, People for the Ethical
Treatment of Animals, Inc. (PETA), and Antje Engelhardt, Ph.D. (Dr. Engelhardt, and
together with PETA, the Next Friends), respectfully submits this request for judicial notice in
support of the accompanying opposition to defendants motions to dismiss.
Plaintiff requests judicial notice of the following:
Exhibit A: Exhibit A is a letter dated December 22, 2014 from attorneys
representing Defendants David Slater and Wildlife Personalities Ltd. to the online
news website, Techdirt.com. The letter was reported on, and reprinted by,
Techdirt, and is available at https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20141230/
17134529552/our-reply-to-totally-bogus-monkey-selfie-cease-desist.shtml.
Exhibit B: Exhibit B is an online newspaper article from the London-based
newspaper, The Telegraph, titled Wikipedia refuses to delete photo as monkey
owns it, dated Aug. 6, 2014. It is available at http://www.telegraph.co.uk/
technology/news/11015672/Wikipedia-refuses-to-delete-photo-as-monkey-owns-
it.html.
In general, a court may not consider items outside the pleadings when deciding a motion
to dismiss, but it may consider items of which it can take judicial notice.Estate of Cartledge v.
Columbia Cas. Co., 2011 WL 5884255, at *1 (E.D.Cal. 2011), citingBarron v. Reich,13 F.3d
1370, 1377 (9th Cir.1994). Under Federal Rule of Evidence 201, [c]ourts may take judicial
notice of publications introduced to indicate what was in the public realm at the time, not whether
the contents of those articles were in fact true. Von Saher v. Norton Simon Museum of Art at
Pasadena, 592 F.3d 954, 960 (9th Cir. 2010) (taking judicial notice of newspaper articles solely as
indication of what was in the public domain at the time);Heliotrope Gen. Inc. v. Ford Motor Co.,
189 F.3d 971, 981 n. 118 (9th Cir. 1999) (court would take judicial notice that the market was
aware of information contained in published newspaper articles).
Here, Plaintiff requests judicial notice of these online reports solely to show that Defendant
Slater has previously claimed to hold a copyright to the photographs at issue in this litigation.
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They are offered for the purpose of background only, and Plaintiff does not request that the Court
conclude that any fact stated in either article is true for the purpose of ruling on the motions to
dismiss.
Dated: December 4, 2015 Respectfully submitted,
IRELL & MANELLA LLP
David A. Schwarz
PETA FOUNDATION
Jeffrey S. KerrMatthew Strugar
Martina Bernstein
By: /s/ David A. Schwarz
David A. Schwarz
Attorneys for Plaintiff
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EXHIBIT A
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