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· 8/15/2006

Levin v. Dalva Brothers, Inc.

Citations

  • 459 F.3d 68
  • 70 Fed. R. Serv. 1025
  • 2006 U.S. App. LEXIS 20838
  • 2006 WL 2348547

How courts have described this case

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

  • recognizing that “a district court acts properly by excluding opinions that are beyond the witness's expertise”
  • explaining that “Rule 702 has been interpreted liberally in favor of the admission of expert testimony”
  • stating that the point at which a party must raise a choice-of-law argument is “based on [each] case's own facts and equities”
  • explaining that a court may reject a late-filed choice-of-law motion based on “the case’s own facts and equities”
  • noting that “[e]xpert testimony on industry standards is common fare in civil litigation” (collecting cases)
  • noting that “[g]enerally, an expert may not offer an opinion concerning a legal question” but that “[e]xpert testimony on industry standards is common fare in civil litigation”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Selya, Lipez, Howard

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