While 12 jurors will decide Lindsay Clancy's fate, people outside the courtroom have been reaching their own conclusions.

In his Section 1983 Litigation column, Touro Law Center professor Martin A. Schwartz analyzes recent federal court decisions concerning expert testimony of police practices experts; expert testimony ...

“Here’s the bottom line. When you ladies and gentlemen with your M.D.s and Ph.D.s come into a courtroom, you are going to be forced to use the court’s language, you are going to have to follow the ...

Aleksandra Rybicki, Stephanie Salek and Sally Levin of Hollingsworth LLP write that the court’s majority in Sommerville v. Union Carbide relied on an outdated “weight-not-admissibility” approach to ...

Dostoevsky's "Brother's Karamazov" cleverly spoofs the careless inexpertness of what often passes for expert legal testimony. Three medical experts are called to testify whether Dmitri Karamazov was ...

Expert psychological testimony can transform your criminal defense by establishing whether you possessed the mental capacity to commit the alleged crime. Courts will scrutinize this evidence using the ...

In Wolford v. Lopez, the Supreme Court has the opportunity to clarify for the lower courts the difference between legislative and adjudicative facts. Lower courts hostile to the Second Amendment ...

Medical records and eyewitness accounts often anchor an injury case. However, some cases require a depth of knowledge about the medicine or science involved that goes beyond what is evident from just ...

The underlying case is a putative class action in the Southern District of West Virginia seeking medical monitoring for alleged increased cancer risk resulting from defendants' ethylene oxide ...

Executive Summary: In ex parte reexamination, a patent owner’s response to a non-final Office Action is often a critical opportunity to build the factual record, particularly when the rejection ...

“One of the questions that we ought to be considering is whether . . . [the] current system of toxic tort litigation works given these very different objectives that we have, or whether one could ...