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Noah A. Katsell (Bar No. 217090) [email protected] DLA PIPER US LLP 401 B Street, Suite 1700 San Diego, CA 92101-4297 Tel: 619.699.2700 Fax: 619.699.2701 Amy Weinfeld Schulman (To apply pro hac vice) [email protected] DLA PIPER US LLP 1251 Avenue of the Americas New York, NY 10020-1104 Tel: 212.335.4500 Fax: 212.335.4501 Attorneys for Defendant Kraft Foods Global, Inc. UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

ADRIANNE SMITH, as an individual and on behalf of all others similarly situated, Plaintiff, v.

CASE NO. 07 CV 2192 BEN (CAB) Assigned to Hon. Roger T. Benitez DEFENDANT KRAFT FOODS GLOBAL, INC.'S REQUEST FOR JUDICIAL NOTICE IN SUPPORT OF ITS MOTION TO DISMISS PURSUANT TO FRCP 12(B)(6) [Filed concurrently with (1) Notice of Motion and Motion to Dismiss and (2) Memorandum of Points and Authorities in Support of Motion to Dismiss] Date: April 21, 2008 Time: 10:30 a.m. Place: Courtroom 3

KRAFT FOODS, Inc., a Virginia corporation, Defendant.

Defendant Kraft Foods Global, Inc., erroneously sued as Kraft Foods, Inc. ("Kraft"), pursuant to Federal Rule of Evidence 201, respectfully requests that the Court take judicial notice of the following:
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Minutes of In Chambers Order by Hon. R. Gary Klausner, McKinniss v. Sunny

Delight Beverages Co., Case No. CV 07-2034 RGK (JCx) (C.D. Cal. entered Sept. 4, 2007), attached hereto as Exhibit A; 2. Minutes of In Chambers Order by Hon. Gary Allen Feess, McKinniss v. General

Mills, Inc., CV 07-2521 GAF (FMOx) (C.D. Cal. entered Sept. 19, 2007), attached hereto as Exhibit B; 3. Minutes of In Chambers Order by Hon. Audrey B. Collins, McKinniss v. Kellogg

USA, CV 07-2611 ABC (RCx) (C.D. Cal. entered Sept. 21, 2007), attached hereto as Exhibit C. In these Orders, Judge Klausner, Judge Feess, and Judge Collins dismissed, with prejudice and without leave to amend, three separate actions filed in the Central District based on claims that are similar to the claims that Plaintiff asserts in this action. Kraft respectfully submits that the Court's analysis and disposition in these three cases are relevant to the arguments raised in Kraft's Motion to Dismiss. It is proper on a Rule 12(b)(6) motion to dismiss for a court to take judicial notice of another court's opinion "for the existence of the opinion, which is not subject to reasonable dispute over its authenticity." Lee v. City of Los Angeles, 250 F.3d 668, 690 (9th Cir. 2001). The decisions and orders of a district court may be judicially noticed, as they are public records which are "capable of accurate and ready determination by resort to sources whose accuracy cannot reasonably be questioned." Fed. R. Evid. 201(b); see Marsh v. San Diego County, 432 F. Supp. 2d 1035, 1043 (S.D. Cal. 2006) ("A court may take judicial notice of the existence of matters of public record, such as a prior order or decision[.]"); Wible v. Aetna Life Ins. Co., 375 F. Supp. 2d 956, 965 (C.D. Cal. 2005) ("This court may take judicial notice of its own records, and documents that are public records and capable of accurate and ready determination by sources that cannot reasonably be questioned."); see also United States v. Wilson, 631 F.2d 118, 119 (9th Cir. 1980) ("In particular, a court may take judicial notice of its own records in other cases, as well as the records of an inferior court in other cases."); Perry v. The Upper Deck Co., LLC, Case No. 05 CV 1329 LAB (CAB), 2007 WL 1449797, at *2 (S.D. Cal. May 11, 2007) (taking judicial notice of a ruling in a California state court action where the Court found the -2Case No. 07 CV 2192 BEN (CAB)

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record "relevant as having some bearing on the Court's analysis of the issues in this case"); Lundquist v. Cont'l Cas. Co., 394 F. Supp. 2d 1230, 1243 (C.D. Cal. 2005) (taking judicial notice of orders filed in the Central and Northern Districts of California as persuasive authority on issue presented); BP West Coast Prods., LLC v. Greene, 318 F. Supp. 2d 987, 994 (E.D. Cal. 2004) (taking judicial notice of "the opinions, complaints, briefs, and evidence filed in other actions" in order to "review how other courts have addressed" the "arguments and contentions" raised in the controversy before it); Wendt v. Smith, 273 F. Supp. 2d 1078, 1082 (C.D. Cal. 2003) (taking judicial notice of "various opinions of the U.S. District Courts and unpublished opinions of the Ninth Circuit"); Gardiner v. Provident Life & Accident Ins. Co., 158 F. Supp. 2d 1088, 1098­99 (C.D. Cal. 2001) (taking judicial notice of a document entitled "Civil Minutes ­ General" that had been issued by the same court in a different action).

Dated: February 13, 2008

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s/Noah A. Katsell Attorneys for Defendant Kraft Foods Global, Inc. E-mail: [email protected]

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