The City of Norwalk

How courts have described this case

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

• finding it is within the court’s discretion “to require an expert to testify to the underlying facts and data before giving opinion testimony”
• “Challenges to the chain of custody of the underlying data on which expert testimony is based go to the weight, not the admissibility, of the testimony.”
• “As to computer data in particular, courts have long held that ‘[t]he fact that it is possible to alter data contained in a computer is plainly insufficient to establish untrustworthiness.’” (alteration in original
• “when faced with a chain-of-custody challenge regarding computer data …, the proponent of the testimony need not prove that there was no chance of tampering with or altering the data to establish reliability”
• “An expert may rely on facts or data that have not been admitted into evidence if the expert’s reliance is reasonable ‘as measured against the facts on which experts in the particular field normally rely’”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).