Monday, March 29, 2004

Utah Decisions to Be Included at "Daubert on the Web"

As Texas goes, so goes Utah. A learned member of the Utah bar has now volunteered to help us track Utah state court decisions at Daubert on the Web. Stay tuned for more details.

If you're a practitioner from one of the other 48 states, this is your chance to get in on the ground floor. If you'd like to help by tracking decisions on expert evidence from your local jurisdiction, write to us now to claim your turf.
Fed. R. Evid. 702: If scientific, technical, or other specialized knowledge will assist the trier of fact to understand the evidence or to determine a fact in issue, a witness qualified as an expert by knowledge, skill, experience, training, or education, may testify thereto in the form of an opinion or otherwise, if (1) the testimony is based upon sufficient facts or data, (2) the testimony is the product of reliable principles and methods, and (3) the witness has applied the principles and methods reliably to the facts of the case.