Doe v. McFarlane

How courts have described this case

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• finding that an expert’s assessment as to reliability is entitled to deference in the situation where the defendant puts on no contradictory evidence
• the appropriate weight to be given to expert testimony is properly left to the finder of fact
• the appropriate weight to be given to expert testimony is properly left to the finder of fact
• “[o]nly in cases where the sources relied on by the expert are so slight as to be fundamentally unsupported, should the opinion be excluded because testimony with that little weight would not assist the [finder of fact]”
• “[o]nly in cases where the sources relied on by the expert are so slight as to be fundamentally unsupported, should the opinion be excluded because testimony with that little weight would not assist the [finder of fact]”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).