Peart v. Latham and Watkins LLP

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a court may rely on materials that are appropriate forjudicial notice when evaluating a Rule l2(b)(l) motion, including public records
• finding supplemental jurisdiction where state-law claims “stem from the same events as the federal-law claims”
• taking judicial notice of facts contained in agency letters from public agency proceedings
• finding it “appropriate to take judicial notice of the facts contained in the ... EEOC letters as they ‘can be accurately and readily determined’ from a public agency proceeding, the accuracy of which ‘cannot reasonably be questioned’ ” (citing Fed. R. Evid. 201(b)(2))
• “Section 1981 does not provide a cause of action for pregnancy or gender discrimination ... [because, a]s is clear from the statute’s language, § 1981 is limited to racial discrimination.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).