Sentences with phrase «recent court testimony»

Not exact matches

Joe Percoco's attorney, Barry Bohrer, issued a statement suggesting the charges against him were based on non-credible witness testimony and wouldn't square with the Supreme Court's recent ruling vacating a fraud charge against former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell.

As noted today by Scott Greenfield on his Twitter feed, a recent marijuana case in federal court in Illinois turned on the testimony of Richard L. Doty, Ph.D., who was permitted to testify as a marijuana odor expert.

The court distinguished the recent Supreme Court's decision in Crawford v. Metro Gov» t of Nashville and Davidson County, Tenn., 129 SCt 846 (2009), (which abrogated the 6th Circuit's view that the opposition clause required active, consistent behavior), by stating that Crawford involved involuntary testimony while Thompson did not engage in any protected acticourt distinguished the recent Supreme Court's decision in Crawford v. Metro Gov» t of Nashville and Davidson County, Tenn., 129 SCt 846 (2009), (which abrogated the 6th Circuit's view that the opposition clause required active, consistent behavior), by stating that Crawford involved involuntary testimony while Thompson did not engage in any protected actiCourt's decision in Crawford v. Metro Gov» t of Nashville and Davidson County, Tenn., 129 SCt 846 (2009), (which abrogated the 6th Circuit's view that the opposition clause required active, consistent behavior), by stating that Crawford involved involuntary testimony while Thompson did not engage in any protected activity.

Among Mr. Born's recent significant litigation matters are representation of various European entities in the Holocaust Assets and Forced Labor litigations, representation of a major US petroleum company in defending against efforts to enforce purported foreign judgments in the United States and testimony as an expert witness in a number of proceedings in Swedish, English, US, Japanese and other courts.

Washington D.C. is now the most recent jurisdiction to adopt Rule 702, a trend that has continued since Rule 702 was amended in 2000 to reflect United States Supreme Court decisions pertaining to expert witness testimony, such as Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc., 509 U.S. 579 (1993); Kumho Tire Co. v. Carmichael, 526 U.S. 137 (1999); and General Electric v. Joiner, 522 U.S. 136 (1997).

Boston government investigations and white collar defense partner Brian Kelly is quoted in this article about a recent federal court case that convicted a man of extortion and conspiracy to commit extortion, where the prosecutors presented expert testimony from a Mafia expert.

He gives the law a grade of «A» or thereabouts in tackling dubious expert testimony (with the Daubert revolution), in preventing the unwarranted extension of class action concepts from financial - injury cases to the realm of personal injury, and — a much newer development — in introducing serious scrutiny of claims at the pleading stage through the Supreme Court's recent Twombly and Iqbal decisions.

In recent cases handed down by the Indiana Supreme Court (Bennett v. Richmond, 960 N.E. 2d 782 (Ind. 2012); Person v. Shipley, 962 N.E. 2d 1192 (Ind. 2012)-RRB-, we see challenges to expert testimony that went too far with arguments for more stringent requirements than are required under IRE 702.

In a recent case, the Indiana Court of Appeals held that a nurse practitioner can provide expert medical testimony in areas previously reserved to only medical doctors.