Evidence

Kirk T. Hartley

This Week - Planning Underway for Fourth Edition of the Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence

Planning continues this week for the Fourth Edition of the federal Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence. The event is an open access...

Kirk Hartley

In Federal Court, When Is An Affidavit A Declaration Even if Not Notarized?

Time and again, litigators experience hassles with a witness obtaining notarization of a signature. That sometimes leads to submission...

Kirk Hartley

Nathan Schactman Asks: “P-Values: Pernicious or Perspicacious?”

Statistical analysis tools remain topics that are comfortable for relatively few lawyers. One of them is Nathan Schactman. In a new blog...

Kirk Hartley

Exotic Bats on the Moon: A Coda on the Hearsay Rule and Ancient Documents Exception

Nathan Schactman added a coda to his prior post on the probable demise of the ancient document exception to the rule against hearsay....

Kirk Hartley

2017 May Bring an End to the US Federal Version of the Ancient Document Hearsay Exception

2016 has been quite the year, and it looks as if 2017 could be quite the year. To close out this year, a link to Nathan Schactman’s...

Kirk Hartley

The WV Mine Explosion as an Example of the Intersection of Criminal Law and Torts

A news article on the criminal trial from the West Virginia mine explosion provides a concrete example of how limits on trial evidence...

Kirk Hartley

In a First Bell Weather MDL Case, the Trial Judge Rules that Evidence is Admissible Regarding Other

In a mass tort MDL trial, what evidence can/should jurors here regarding 1) other MDL cases involving the same product and 2) plaintiff...

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