Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States

Law Offices of Hafif v. United States

520 U.S. 1252

Type
Opinion
Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Jurisdiction
Federal
Date
1997-06-02
Topic
general

How later courts describe this case

  • Daubert framework applies to social sciences, but “the measure of intellectual rigor will vary by the field of expertise and the way of demonstrating expertise will also vary”
  • “When the trial court concludes, on substantial evidence, that [a witness’s] professed lapses of memory are false, evasive devices to avoid truthful answers, it may admit, as ‘inconsistent,’ the witness’s prior statements describing the events the witness now claims to have forgotten.”

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C. A. 9th Cir. Certiorari denied.