United States v. Bari

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• \A court may be guided by the forum State's `public policy' in determining the law applicable to a controversy. See Nevada v. Hall
• \A court may be guided by the forum State’s 'public policy' in determining the law applicable to a controversy. See Nevada v. Hall
• holding that it was not a reversible error for a judge to employ an internet search to confirm a reasonable intuition on a matter of common knowledge
• concluding it was not reversible error for District Court to conduct “an independent Internet search to confirm its intuition that there are many types of yellow rain hats for sale.”
• upholding judicial notice where “a judge need only take a few moments to confirm [her] intuition by conducting a basic Internet search”
• applying F.R.E. 201 “in some relaxed form” to review a trial court’s performance of an internet search “to confirm its intuition that there are many types of yellow rain hats for sale”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).