Lamar Stutzman and Rhonda Stutzman v. Crst, Incorporated, an Iowa Corporation, and Ferman Brown

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that the admissibility of expert testimony in federal diversity cases is a procedural matter governed by federal law
• “[A]n expert’s lack of absolute certainty goes to the weight of [her] testimony, not to its admissibility.” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• “[T]he Federal Rules do not contain any threshold level of certainty requirement. . . . “[C]ertainty is an issue for the jury and does not affect admissibility.”
• “In a diversity case, federal law guides our review of jury instructions.”
• district court properly admitted doctor’s expert testimony that plaintiffs preexisting condition could have been aggravated by an automobile accident despite the fact that the doctor testified only that aggravation was “possible,” not that it was “probable”
• “In a diversity case, federal law guides our review of jury instruc‐ tions.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).