Opinion ID: 2677087
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Heading: The Motion to Supplement the Record and Take

Text: Judicial Notice We grant Washoe County’s motion to supplement the record. It is well established that we may take judicial notice of judicial proceedings in other courts. See Dawson v. Mahoney, 451 F.3d 550, 551 n.1 (9th Cir. 2006); U.S. ex rel. Robinson Rancheria Citizens Council v. Borneo, Inc., 971 F.2d 244, 248 (9th Cir. 1992). And, while the motion was filed at the eleventh hour, the Ninth Circuit Rules do not place time limits on requests that this Court take judicial notice of proceedings in other courts. The court documents provide relevant and material details adding to and clarifying the allegations of the complaint relating to plaintiff’s release from jail. Without the court documents, we would be bound to accept, without question, Rosales-Martinez’s allegation that the Washoe County District Court had granted his habeas petition on the basis of its allegations. The court documents reveal a more complicated and somewhat different account, suggesting the invalidity of the more serious counts of drug trafficking, the continuing validity of Rosales-Martinez’s conviction for the less serious drug crime of Unlawful Giving Away, and a new sentence giving credit for a portion of the jail term that he already served. There is no question that justice requires us to consider the full events relating to the invalidation of Plaintiff’s convictions and jail term, and not merely a simplified, and 12 ROSALES-MARTINEZ V. PALMER perhaps somewhat misleading, conclusory allegation of what occurred. Courts are instructed, in deciding Rule 12(b)(6) motions, to read the allegations of a complaint in the context of the full documents which the allegations purport to summarize and, where appropriate, to accept the documents, rather that a characterization of the documents, as the true account. See Cooper v. Pickett, 137 F.3d 616, 622–23 (9th Cir. 1997). Thus, we grant Washoe County’s motion to supplement the record, and we take judicial notice of the court documents presented by the motion.