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· 1/18/1932

Ætna Life Ins. v. Bisbee

Citations

  • 57 F.2d 1071
  • 1932 U.S. App. LEXIS 4125

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that trial court did not err in admitting testimony that drew its force from training and experience rather than “the mantle of science”
  • holding that a DRE expert who completed 11 of the 12 DRE steps could testify that the defendant was under the influence of a narcotic analgesic
  • recognizing officer’s qualification to offer nonscientific expert opinion of intoxication based on training and experience
  • concluding that the officer “apart from his reference to independently admissible scientific tests — [did not] rely on the vocabulary of science, nor did he suggest that his conclusions had been reached through the application of a scientific method to collected data”

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