The District of Columbia’s highest local court this week adopted a new standard for how judges decide whether to admit expert testimony, replacing a rule that dates back nearly 100 years.
A full sitting of the D.C. Court of Appeals ruled that the District would now follow the standard used in the federal court system, which has been adopted by the majority of state courts. The rule sets out a reliability test that not only looks at an expert’s methodology, but also how that methodology is applied to a particular case.
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