Our NY Civil Practice Law and Rules require that when a verified pleading is made, the person verifying, if other than a party, must set forth the grounds of any statement in the pleading made upon information and belief.

Judge Morrison applies this principle when it comes to FRE 201(b), judicial notice, in Edward Francis Bachner, IV, and Rebecca Gay Bachner, Docket No. 23219-15, filed 10/3/23. Ed was here before; see my blogpost “Immunity 101,” 2/17/17. I didn’t then know the scope of Ed’s concern about self-incrimination, but Judge Morrison’s thirty-one (count ’em, thirty-one) page catalogue of Ed’s doings show that Ed had good grounds for worry.