A recent and significant amendment to Federal Rule of Evidence 807, known as the residual exception, took effect on Dec. 1, 2019. Rule 807 has historically allowed an argument for the admissibility ...
One issue on which there is neither an applicable rule nor settled law is whether expert reports are admissible at trial—not in lieu of, but in addition to, expert testimony. Courts have gone both ...
In S.D. Police Dep't v. Geoffrey S., decided Friday (but posted today) by the California Court of Appeal (Justice Martin Buchanan, joined by Presiding Justice Cynthia Aaron), the court upheld a ...
Lin v. Everyday Beauty is an Eastern District of New York decision addressing an issue that has divided district courts in the Second Circuit and elsewhere: Whether a federal court may consider ...
The general inadmissibility of hearsay is something that has been around for some time, just like various exceptions that allow hearsay to be admitted in certain situations. The residual exception is ...
The trial of Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, accused in the death of George Floyd, prompted a question about how lawyers bring out information they want a judge or jury to consider. Floyd is ...
FALLS CHURCH, Va. (AP) — A leading Republican critique of the House impeachment inquiry is that Democrats are relying on “hearsay” evidence. The word ‘hearsay’ is bandied about in legal circles all ...
The overriding goal of the Federal Rules of Evidence is to ensure fairness. As noted in Rule 102, the rules are to be “construed so as to administer every proceeding fairly, eliminate unjustifiable ...
Market quotations, lists, directories, or other compilations that are generally relied on by the public or by persons in particular occupations. Generally, it is well established that evidence from ...
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