Holding FBI agent sufficiently qualified to serve as expert witness based on working for seventeen years as FBI agent and five years in "FBI's Organized Crime Program"
Concluding that claims were adjudicated on the merits where state court stated that it had "considered the other contentions raised by defendant . . . and conclude[d] that they [were] without merit"
Holding that the trial court abused its discretion in excluding an expert opinion for noncompliance with a pretrial order where, among other things, "the testimony of [the excluded expert] was critical to [defendant]'s defense on the issue of causation"
Upholding the bankruptcy court's judgment imposing monetary sanctions and suspending an attorney from practice before the bankruptcy court for five years
Fed. R. Evid. 703 Cited 4,736 times 26 Legal Analyses
Explaining that facts or data of a type upon which experts in the field would reasonably rely in forming an opinion need not be admissible in order for the expert's opinion based on the facts and data to be admitted