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· 3/25/2015

William James v. Rosalind Ruiz

Citations

  • 440 N.J. Super. 45
  • 111 A.3d 123

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that an “attorney may not pose such consistency/inconsistency questions to a testifying expert, where the manifest purpose of those questions is to have the jury consider for their truth the absent expert’s hearsay opinions about complex and disputed matters”
  • recognizing the \long-standing policy\ of our courts \disfavor[s] the admission of hearsay\ because it is \presumptively deemed to be 'untrustworthy and unreliable'\
  • disapproving \of improper 'bootstrapping' of a non-testifying expert's findings on complex and disputed matters\
  • radiologist's hearsay opinion finding a disc bulge

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