Nieves-Villanueva v. Soto-Rivera

How courts have described this case

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

• ruling inadmissible expert testimony regarding holdings of cases on statutory categorization of public employees, but upholding trial verdict as product of harmless error
• describing as “black-letter law” the postulate that it is for-the judge, not the witnesses, to inform the jurors as to the applicable law
• noting “particular areas of law, such as legal malpractice, where expert testimony on legal matters is admissible where it would normally be excluded”
• “[T]here may be particular areas of law, such as legal malpractice, where expert testimony on legal matters is admissible where it would normally be excluded.”
• “[T]here may be particular areas of law, such as legal malpractice, where expert testimony on legal matters is 8 admissible where it would normally be excluded.”
• collecting cases rejecting expert testimony for statutory interpretation

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).