Satinover v. Superior Court of Cal.

How courts have described this case

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• noting that expert testimony that “parrots” out-of-court statements fails to help the jury
• noting that “an expert witness is permitted to rely on any evidence, whether it would be admissible or inadmissible if offered by a lay witness, that experts in the witness's area of expertise customarily rely on”
• “[A]n expert who parrots an out-of-court statement is not giving expert testimony; he is a ventriloquist's dummy.”
• “An expert who parrots an out-of-court statement is not giving expert testimony; he is a ventriloquist’s dummy.”
• “An expert who parrots an out-of-court statement is not giving expert testimony; he is a ventriloquist’s dummy.”
• “The evidence the expert relies on has to provide an adequate foundation for the expert's opinion.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).