Longtime readers will recall that every so often, I would go on a "rant" about how many federal judges were ignoring the text of Federal Rule of Evidence 702, as amended in 2000. Instead, they were ...

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New rules on expert witness testimony in federal court are on the horizon, sparking debate among the legal community and impacting litigation. An amendment to Federal Rule of Evidence 702 is set to ...

Civil litigators often overlook character evidence, assuming it to be inadmissible. But the Federal Rules of Evidence and their state counterparts do not impose a categorical ban on character evidence ...

From Turner v. State, decided Thursday by the Arkansas Supreme Court (in an opinion by Justice Shawn Womack): The evidence presented at trial establishes the following account of events. On April 26, ...

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I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been asked this. Well, really I can; after all, it’s not confidential. The question I’ve been asked that’s launched a thousand protests is: “Can’t we use this? Can ...

July 03, 2024 - Most criminal defense attorneys have encountered efforts by prosecutors to elicit "expert opinions" from law enforcement agents at trial that, in essence, the Defendant's actions ...

Ran Wang and Guanyang Yao of Liu Shen & Associates analyse the different evidence rules relating to IP litigation, including evidence deadlines, evidence required for damages and evidence for ...

The rapid and transformational growth of artificial intelligence (AI) technology will profoundly impact the legal landscape. This requires lawyers, judges, and consulting and testifying experts to be ...