Leonard Lapsley v. Xtek, Inc.

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• holding that the question is whether the expert’s hypothesis is “reliably supported and applied to the known facts, such that it rises above speculation and becomes a presentable probability”
• holding that simulations and mathematical or computer models are “perfectly acceptable form[s] of test[s]”
• holding that simulations and mathematical or computer models are “perfectly acceptable form[s] of test[s]”
• noting that the reliability of scientific evidence depends in part on whether a technique has been tested, analyzed for error, and generally accepted within the scientific field
• affirming admission of expert testimony based on the expert’s own “re- port, calculations, and deposition testimony”
• “We do not require experts to drop a proverbial apple each time they wish to use Newton’s gravitational constant in an equation.”

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