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Federal Rules Of Evidence | AutoTraffic New Rule 702 Raises Hurdles for Experts in Federal Court
An amendment to Federal Rule of Evidence 702 no doubt will raise the hurdles to be cleared by experts in the eyes of some federal judges, but the Committee Note accompanying the amendment should ...
read more Amendments to Federal Rule of Evidence 702 and the Implications for Expert Witnesses
Effective December 1, 2023, the amendment to the United States Federal Rule of Evidence 702 clarifies and emphasizes existing requirements for the admissibility of expert witness testimony. Overall, ...
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In December, Federal Rule of Evidence 702, the federal statutory law governing expert witness opinion's admissibility, changed. This change was made to emphasize “[E]ach expert opinion must stay ...
read more Two Federal Court Decisions in Three Days Misapply the General Choice of Laws Rules in Diversity Cases: Part I
Federal courts sitting in diversity cases must comply with Federal Rule of Evidence 501: “[I]n a civil case, state law governs privilege regarding a claim or defense for which state law supplies the ...
read more Our Understanding of Memory Has Changed, the Rules of Evidence Have Not
Armed with this knowledge, lawyers and courts should reconsider how the rules of evidence treat eyewitness testimony. Currently, the Federal Rules of Evidence assume that earnestly given testimony can ...
read more Federal court rules firearm restrictions on defendants awaiting trial are constitutional
Court orders that prohibited two criminal defendants from possessing firearms while they awaited trial were constitutional because they were in line with past restrictions on firearms ...
read more Note - "Vegas Rule: Jury Deliberation Edition": Should the Sixth Amendment Exception for Alleged Racial Bias in Deliberations Extend to Gender?
Federal Rule of Evidence 606(b) and its jurisprudence generally prohibit jurors from impeaching the validity of their verdicts. This general preclusion of juror testimony, derived from ...
read more How accurate is forensic analysis?
Several federal circuit and state courts deem polygraph ... in a suspect's gun or cartridge box misleading under federal rules of evidence.
read more No evidence of Havana syndrome brain injury, US studies find
A U.S. government research team found no significant physical evidence of brain injury in a group of federal employees suffering symptoms of the "Havana syndrome" ailment that emerged in 2016, ...
read more EPA finalizes rule banning ongoing use of asbestos
The federal government on Monday took steps to finalize a ban on the ongoing use of the toxic Asbestos substance in an effort to cut back cancer diagnoses.
read more Former Upper Darby director of parking enforcement's case heading to trial, judge rules
Sekela Coles was the director of Upper Darby's parking enforcement before charges of theft, receiving stolen property and obstruction were filed last summer. She resigned.A judge on Monday ruled ...
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