Settlements, settlement offers, and settlement discussions in civil actions.

44 U.S.C. §§ 1570, 1510(e) (Publication of a document in the Federal Register and the Supplement to the Federal Register creates a rebuttable presumption that the document was duly issued, prescribed, or promulgated, and its contents may be judicially noticed.).Federal Rule of Evidence of 902(10) and comparable State rules provide that any signature, document, or other matter is self-authenticating -- i.e., requires no further evidence of authenticity to be admissible in evidence -- if an applicable statute provides that the signature, document, or other matter is presumptively authentic or if an applicable statute provides that the signature, document, or other matter is prima facie evidence of its own authenticity.

United States v. Lopez, 340 F.3d 169, 175-177 (3d Cir. 2003) (reversing convictions for possession of heroin, and possession of contraband by an inmate because "the challenged statements constituted inadmissible hearsay,....Hearsay is a statement that (i) is made other than at the trial or proceeding at which it is offered and (ii) is offered to prove the truth of the matter asserted by the maker of the statement, the declarant.

City of Tuscaloosa v. Harcros Chemicals, Inc., 158 F.3d 548, 557-558 (11th Cir. 1998) (holding, in plaintiff Alabama municipal entities' action against defendant chemical companies for fraud and violation of antitrust law, that the trial court....A statement by an agent or an employee who is not authorized to speak on behalf of the agent's principal or the employee's employer may nonetheless be treated as the statement of the principal or the employer and thus as a vicarious admission that is exempt from the prohibition against hearsay; but such a statement can be imputed to the principal or the employer only if the statement, if by an agent, is about a matter within the scope of the agent's agency or, if by an employee, the statement is about a matter within the scope of the employee's employment.