...December 31, 1980, transactions under GAAP. The knowledgeable experts that the parties brought forth did "assist the trier of fact to understand the evidence or to determine a fact in issue", in accordance with rule 702, Federal Rules of Evidence. However, it is unclear whether under GAAP petitioner...

...general rule, "opinion testimony"5 is held competent only where two circumstances coincide: (a) ". . . scientific, technical, or other specialized knowledge...understand the evidence or to determine a fact in issue," and (b) the witness is "qualified as an expert by knowledge, skill, experience, training, or education"...

...testimony as to medical or psychiatric diagnosis. We set these forth below: "Rule 702. testimony By Experts "If scientific, technical, or other specialized knowledge...the trier of fact to understand the evidence or to dstesmln? a fact In Issue, a vltnass -.1 u al 1 ;i • d ail an exoart by knowledge, skill, experience,...

...Unreliable "Knowledge. " A case can also be made that expert testimony about conversation is necessary "to assist the trier of fact to understand the evidence, or to determine a fact in issue" (Fed. R. Evid. 702) because much of what ordinary people know about language is unconscious, tacit...

...an opinion or otherwise," where he or she is qualified "by knowledge, skill, training or education," if "scientific, technical or other specialized knowledge...assist the trier of fact to understand the evidence to determine a fact in issue."9 The expert assists the judge and/or jury to understand and interpret...

...question, Who is an expert witness? Federal Rule of Evidence 702 permits qualified experts to testify if "scientific, technical, or other specialized knowledge will assist the trier of fact." For example, medical testimony in malpractice cases does not create a problem. The problem arises in...

...Downing focused on the "helpfulness" criterion codified in Rule 702 of the Federal Rules of Evidence: lf scientific, technical, or other specialized knowledge...assist the trier of fact to understand the evidence or 10 determine a faa in issue. a witness qualified as an expert by knowledge , skill, experience. training....

...technical, scientific, or by virtue of their experience. Federal Rules of Evidence, Rule 702, indicates that if scientific, technical, or other specialized knowledge will assist the trier of fact, then a witness qualified as an expert may testify in the form of an opinion. The US Supreme Court expanded...

...belongs."14 Rule 702, however, includes no such requirement. Instead, that rule states, in pertinent part: If scientific, technical, or other specialized knowledge...understand the evidence or to determine a fact in issue, [an expert] may testify thereto in the form of an opinion or otherwise!.]15 From this spare language,...

...of the Federal Rules of Evidence provides that expert opinions may be admissible where the expert's "scientific, technical, or other specialized knowledge...understand the evidence or to determine a fact in issue." Thus, there are two threshold questions: Does the witness possess sufficient scientific, technical,...