United States v. 0.161 Acres of Land, More or Less, Situated in the City of Birmingham, Jefferson County, Alabama

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• noting that an expert’s opinion is admissible “provided that he states the assumptions on which his opinions are based,” even if those assumptions omit certain evidence
• discussing the relationship between relevancy, Rule 403, and expert testimony on land valuation
• “Certainly where an expert’s testimony amounts to no more than a mere guess or speculation, a court should exclude his testimony.”
• under Federal Rule 403, “where an expert’s testimony amounts to no more than a mere guess or speculation, a court should exclude his testimony”
• “[W]here the expert’s testimony has a rea- sonable factual basis, a court should not exclude it.”
• deficiencies in the methodology used by an expert as the basis for the expert's opinion affected the weight and not the admissibility of the expert's opinion

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