MCI Telecommunications Corporation v. Boyd Wanzer, and Kathleen Zampieri

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• holding that business bookkeeper may give lay opinion testimony on projected profits on the “basis of facts and data perceived by him” in his role as bookkeeper
• permitting accountant and bookkeeper to “testify[] on the basis of records kept by her personally under her control”
• allowing employee to offer lay witness testimony on future profits where the testimony was based on personal knowledge of company finances
• allowing lay opinion testimony under Rule 701 where it is “well founded on personal knowledge as distinguished from hypothetical facts” and based on “relevant historical or narrative facts that the witness has perceived”
• profit projections based upon personal knowledge of company's finances admissible under Rule 701
• profit projections based upon personal knowledge of company’s finances admissible under Rule 701

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).