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Salek and Sally Levin of Hollingsworth LLP write that the court’s majority in Sommerville v. Union Carbide relied on an outdated “weight-not-admissibility” approach to ...
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 ...
NEW YORK — An expert witness was called to the stand at a Brooklyn domestic sexual assault trial to tell the jury about the impact of intimate abuse in the Islamic faith. The testimony included claims ...
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 ...
Law360 (June 26, 2026, 10:16 AM EDT) -- Editor's note: Law360 welcomes opinionated commentary and debate in our Expert Analysis section. To submit op-eds or rebuttals, or to speak to an editor about ...
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 ...
Live Nation’s antitrust defense is coming into sharper focus as the entertainment giant continues to roll out its argument in a New York courtroom this week. Faced with arguments that its overlapping ...
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 ...