If a party in a case involving a charge or claim of sexual assault intends to offer evidence of the sexual disposition of the victim or the sexual conduct of the victim on other occasions to show the alleged victim's consent to sexual relations with the party charged with sexual assault, the offeror may be required by a rape shield law to give advance notice of the offeror's intent to do so.

Doe v. Smith, 470 F.3d 331, 342 (7th Cir. 2006) (remanding for new trial in a molestation suit because the district court erred in excluding evidence of defendant's 2001 conviction for solicitation of a child where defendant's solicitous conduct "constituted an attempt to commit a sexual offense against a...Federal Rule of Evidence 413(d) provides that for purposes of Rule 413 and also for purposes of Federal Rule of Evidence 415 an "offense of sexual assault" is a crime under Federal law or the law of a State (as defined in section 513 of title 18, United States Code) that involved-- (1) any conduct proscribed by chapter 109A of title 18, United States Code; (2) contact, without consent, between any part of the defendant's body or an object and the genitals or anus of another person; (3) contact, without consent, between the genitals or anus of the defendant and any part of another person's body; (4) deriving sexual pleasure or gratification from the infliction of death, bodily injury, or physical pain on another person; or (5) an attempt or conspiracy to engage in conduct described in paragraphs (1)-(4).

Fed. R. Evid. 103(d) ("Nothing in this rule precludes taking notice of plain errors affecting substantial rights although they were not brought to the attention of the court.").An objection is unnecessary to preserve a claim of error and a trial court should exclude, on its own initiative, evidence offered against a criminal defendant or other disadvantaged party when admission of the evidence would be "plain error."

Columbus-America Discovery Group, Inc. v. Unidentified, Wrecked And Abandoned Sailing Vessel, 742 F. Supp. 1327, 1343 (E.D. Va. 1990) (holding, in plaintiff search group's admiralty action against defendant salvage company, that "[e]ven if there be restrictions on the use of newspaper....Federal Rule of Evidence 803(16) and comparable State rules create a hearsay exception for statements in an authenticated document that is more than a certain number of years old, typically twenty years.