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Meeting reliability standards in case A doesn't give a CPA witness a leg up in case B.
At the fall 2000 AICPA Advanced Litigation Services Conferenc...
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Summary judgment; expert testimony; Daubert hearing; motion in limine.
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Sufficient evidence; expert testimony; Daubert hearing.
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Introduction
Accountants are often called upon to perform litigation support services, including expert testimony on valuation and economic damages....
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Medical malpractice (breast cancer detection), wrongful death, harmless error, substantial justice, proximate cause, expert testimony, Daubert, Valentine.
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In the landmark 1993 decision Daubert v Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, the US Supreme Court replaced the Frye standard for admissibility of expert testimony and held that Federal Rule of Evidence 702 provides the standard for admitting scientific testimony in a federal trial. Daubert entrusted judges with the role of "gatekeepers" of scientific expert testimony and established several criteria for judges to consider when evaluating whether to admit scientific evidence. Daubert involved a product liability claim, and since 1993, product liability suits have comprised the vast majority of cases involving Daubert challenges to admissibility of scientific testimony. However, in Kumho Tire v Carmichael, the Supreme Court rejected the argument that Daubert applies only to scientific testimony. ...
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voluntariness of confession, suppression, expert testimony, assistance to jury of expert testimony, Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (1993), 509 U.S. 579, 25 L.Ed.2d 469
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Daubert began a wide-ranging debate about the rules that govern the admissibility in both state and federal trials.
When the U. S. Supreme Court han...
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The US Supreme Court in Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals Inc has provided lower courts more concrete guidelines for the admissibility of scientific testimony in toxic tort cases. The court replaced the Kelly-Frye standard of general acceptance by the scientific community with a more exact test, which allows scientific evidence that has results which can be uniformly duplicated and have withstood scrutiny by peers. By focusing on reliability factors, the Daubert standard is more consistent with the admissibility requirements of Federal Rules of Evidence 702 and 703.