James H. VALLOT, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. CENTRAL GULF LINES, INC., and S. S. GREEN FOREST, in Rem, Defendants-Appellees

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• concluding that a court may refuse to take judicial notice of irrelevant facts
• affirming district court’s refusal to take judicial notice of information the movant failed to establish was relevant
• deeming “without merit” a party’s argument that the court should have judicially noticed information in the Federal Register because the party “did not demonstrate that the information . . . was relevant”
• “The burden of proving proximate cause in actions based on general maritime law and the Jones Act is very light and on the plaintiff.”
• “Although 44 U.S.C. § 1507 requires the contents of the Federal Register be judicially noticed, [a party] cannot demand admission of . . . publications as evidence . . . where they have no relevance.”

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