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· 1/18/2007

Sharon Surles, by Next Friend Jayneice Johnson, Plaintiff-Appellee/cross-Appellant v. Greyhound Lines, Inc., Defendant-Appellant/cross-Appellee

Citations

  • 474 F.3d 288
  • 72 Fed. R. Serv. 310
  • 2007 U.S. App. LEXIS 1005
  • 2007 WL 107953

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  • holding that district court properly admitted testimony from expert regarding experience designing driver’s enclosures for transit buses
  • holding that a threat-assessment expert could testify in the specialized area of commercial-bus-line threat assessment
  • holding that the district court properly admitted testimony from expert regarding experience designing driver’s enclosures for transit buses
  • holding that district courts need not adhere to Daubert’s “enumerated factors” where non-scientific expert testimony is concerned
  • holding that although an expert’s proffered experience was not specific to a particular industry, his background and experience made him “well-positioned to ‘assist the trier of fact’ to make sense of” the evidence
  • affirming admission of expert testimony when the expert “state[d] that his opinions were based on his extensive experience and review of the relevant materials”

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Judges: Moore, Clay, Bell

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