Johnson v. Knoxville Community School District

How courts have described this case

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• stating that, to be relevant, the evidence must be reliable, and reliability is an implicit requirement of admissibility under Iowa Rule of Evidence 5.702 because “unreliable testimony cannot assist the trier of fact”
• concluding admissibility of expert opinion testimony on the subject of whether a child’s obsessive compulsive disorder traits were caused by head trauma was not based on scientific knowledge of a type requiring heightened scrutiny as to reliability
• although defendant stipulated to negligence, plaintiffs were still required to prove proximate cause on all issues of damages
• “The balancing decision under rule 403 is also a matter for the trial court’s discretion.”
• “Substantial justice is inextricably linked to the adequacy of a jury verdict.”
• noting unreliable evidence “cannot assist a trier of fact”

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