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The 2025 Florida Statutes

Title VII
EVIDENCE
Chapter 90
EVIDENCE CODE
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90.201 Matters which must be judicially noticed.A court shall take judicial notice of:
(1) Decisional, constitutional, and public statutory law and resolutions of the Florida Legislature and the Congress of the United States.
(2) Florida rules of court that have statewide application, its own rules, and the rules of United States courts adopted by the United States Supreme Court.
(3) Rules of court of the United States Supreme Court and of the United States Courts of Appeal.
History.s. 1, ch. 76-237; s. 1, ch. 77-77; ss. 21, 22, ch. 78-361; ss. 1, 2, ch. 78-379.

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Annotations, Discussions, Cases:

Cases Citing Statute 90.201

Total Results: 20

Ellsworth v. Ins. Co. of North America

508 So. 2d 395, 12 Fla. L. Weekly 1115, 1987 Fla. App. LEXIS 8025

District Court of Appeal of Florida | Filed: Apr 29, 1987 | Docket: 1648890

Cited 30 times | Published

...olicy. Filed contemporaneously with their initial briefs in this cause, the Ellsworths filed a motion requesting this court to take judicial notice of the excluded Staff Summary and Analysis. Matters which must be judicially noticed are set forth in section 90.201 of the Evidence Code, and matters which may be judicially noticed appear in section 90.202....

The Florida Bar v. Tobkin

944 So. 2d 219, 31 Fla. L. Weekly Supp. 730, 2006 Fla. LEXIS 2543, 2006 WL 3025690

Supreme Court of Florida | Filed: Oct 26, 2006 | Docket: 1170717

Cited 14 times | Published

...A referee's decisions about the admissibility of evidence will not be disturbed absent an abuse of discretion. Rotstein, 835 So.2d at 244. Even if the rules of evidence did apply strictly, the referee's consideration of the Fourth District's opinion nevertheless would have been proper. Section 90.201, Florida Statutes (2005), entitled "Matters which must be judicially noticed," provides that a court shall take judicial notice of: "Decisional, constitutional, and public statutory law and resolutions of the Florida Legislature and th...

Cox v. State

764 So. 2d 711, 2000 WL 775584

District Court of Appeal of Florida | Filed: Jun 19, 2000 | Docket: 3308

Cited 11 times | Published

...Accordingly, the court reversed the dismissal of the charge and remanded for further proceedings. See id. at 234. The "judicial notice" statute, section 90.202, Florida Statutes, provides in pertinent part: A court may take judicial notice of the following matters to the extent that they are not embraced within § 90.201: ....

Smith v. Greg's Crane Service, Inc.

576 So. 2d 814, 1991 WL 32091

District Court of Appeal of Florida | Filed: Mar 13, 1991 | Docket: 1242433

Cited 7 times | Published

...We feel, for policy reasons to be discussed subsequently, that Logan is inapplicable to the present case. [2] Maige v. Cannon, 98 So.2d 399, 402 (Fla. 1st DCA 1957), also held that control of minor work details was insufficient to form a contract of hire. See, generally, § 90.201, Fla....

Shell Oil Co. v. Dept. of Revenue

461 So. 2d 959, 84 Oil & Gas Rep. 445, 9 Fla. L. Weekly 2315, 1984 Fla. App. LEXIS 12584

District Court of Appeal of Florida | Filed: Apr 3, 1984 | Docket: 464479

Cited 5 times | Published

...ment formula under the Florida code. I would reverse on cross appeal because I review the action of the trial court as if it had complied, as we should, with the mandate for judicial notice of pertinent Florida statutes in resolving this litigation. § 90.201, Florida Statutes; Barnett Bank of Jacksonville v....

Doctors Memorial Hosp., Inc. v. Evans

543 So. 2d 809, 1989 WL 46178

District Court of Appeal of Florida | Filed: May 4, 1989 | Docket: 1437392

Cited 3 times | Published

...ital's governmental status. Although the Hospital urges this Court to take judicial notice of certain statutory laws and resolutions of this state regarding the Hospital, the only documents submitted in exhibit 4 pertaining to mandatory notice under section 90.201, Florida Statutes, were chapters 31319 and 61-2938, Laws of Florida....

Dept. of Revenue v. FLORIDA HOME BUILDERS ASSN

564 So. 2d 173, 1990 Fla. App. LEXIS 4524, 1990 WL 85441

District Court of Appeal of Florida | Filed: Jun 21, 1990 | Docket: 2535023

Cited 3 times | Published

...y noticed. 16 Am.Jur.2d Constitutional Law, § 232 (emphasis supplied); see also McSween v. State Live Stock Sanitary Board of Florida, 122 So. 239, 248 (Fla. 1929). General or public statutes of the state must be judicially noticed by state courts, Section 90.201(1), Florida Statutes, and judicial notice will also therefore be taken of authoritative decisions construing those statutes....

State v. Mobley

98 So. 3d 124, 2012 Fla. App. LEXIS 11765, 2012 WL 2936322

District Court of Appeal of Florida | Filed: Jul 20, 2012 | Docket: 60312145

Cited 3 times | Published

governed by the evidence code. Specifically, section 90.201, Florida Statutes (2011), sets forth matters

Florida Bar v. Gwynn

94 So. 3d 425, 37 Fla. L. Weekly Supp. 121, 2012 WL 489234, 2012 Fla. LEXIS 338

Supreme Court of Florida | Filed: Feb 16, 2012 | Docket: 60310889

Cited 3 times | Published

as a matter — decisional law — which, under section 90.201, Florida Statutes (2005), must be judicially

Turco v. Leon

559 So. 2d 1199, 1990 WL 20703

District Court of Appeal of Florida | Filed: Mar 6, 1990 | Docket: 1751403

Cited 2 times | Published

...cene of the accident. We agree with both assertions. A trial court must take judicial notice of state laws. City of Lakeland v. Select Tenures, Inc., 129 Fla. 338, 176 So. 274 (1937); State ex rel. Landis v. Prevatt, 110 Fla. 29, 148 So. 578 (1933); § 90.201(1), Fla....

Nationwide Mutual Fire Insurance Co. v. Darragh

95 So. 3d 897, 2012 WL 2051075, 2012 Fla. App. LEXIS 9201

District Court of Appeal of Florida | Filed: Jun 8, 2012 | Docket: 60311333

Cited 1 times | Published

take judicial notice of a federal statute. See § 90.201(1), Fla. Stat. (2009). The problem here is that

Rubrecht v. Cone Distributing, Inc.

95 So. 3d 950, 2012 WL 3235164, 2012 Fla. App. LEXIS 13354

District Court of Appeal of Florida | Filed: Aug 10, 2012 | Docket: 60311350

Cited 1 times | Published

say whether they were being admitted under section 90.201 or section 90.202, Florida Statutes, although

Shell Oil Co. v. Department of Revenue

496 So. 2d 789, 11 Fla. L. Weekly 185, 1986 Fla. LEXIS 2062

Supreme Court of Florida | Filed: Apr 24, 1986 | Docket: 1522774

Cited 1 times | Published

...ter what omissions may have occurred at trial. Bendenbaugh v. Adams, 88 So.2d 765 (Fla. 1956); City of Lakeland v. Select Tenures, Inc., 129 Fla. 338, 176 So. 274 (1937); Barnett Bank v. Jacksonville National Bank, 457 So.2d 535 (Fla. 1st DCA 1984); § 90.201, Fla....

Ross v. State

411 So. 2d 247, 1982 Fla. App. LEXIS 19355

District Court of Appeal of Florida | Filed: Mar 2, 1982 | Docket: 64588616

Published

take judicial notice of this Federal statute. § 90.201(1), Fla.Stat. (1979). If a defendant were to meet

J.N.S. v. A.M.A.

194 So. 3d 559, 2016 Fla. App. LEXIS 9675, 2016 WL 3452536

District Court of Appeal of Florida | Filed: Jun 24, 2016 | Docket: 60255827

Published

take judicial notice of public statutory law. § 90.201(1), Fla. Stat. (2016). . Mother's remaining

J.N.S. v. A.M.A.

District Court of Appeal of Florida | Filed: Jun 20, 2016 | Docket: 3091561

Published

take judicial notice of public statutory law. § 90.201(1), Fla. Stat. (2016). 7 Mother’s remaining

Dolan v. State

187 So. 3d 262, 2016 Fla. App. LEXIS 2183, 2016 WL 618901

District Court of Appeal of Florida | Filed: Feb 17, 2016 | Docket: 3036703

Published

which a court must take judicial notice under section 90.201, and it does not appear to fall within the

J.R. v. State

99 So. 3d 427, 37 Fla. L. Weekly Supp. 529, 2012 WL 3732857, 2012 Fla. LEXIS 1662

Supreme Court of Florida | Filed: Aug 30, 2012 | Docket: 60312998

Published

therefore properly took judicial notice pursuant to section 90.201(1), Florida Statutes (2011),3 which provides

Shaffer v. Deutsche Bank National Trust

235 So. 3d 943

District Court of Appeal of Florida | Filed: Apr 19, 2017 | Docket: 4820238

Published

not subject to judicial notice under either section 90.201 or section 90.202, Florida Statutes (2014)

Turner v. City of Clearwater

789 So. 2d 273, 26 Fla. L. Weekly Supp. 233, 2001 Fla. LEXIS 732, 2001 WL 359524

Supreme Court of Florida | Filed: Apr 12, 2001 | Docket: 64806654

Published

basis for a finding in the decision below. Section 90.201, however, provides that a court shall take

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