Whether accident reconstruction is sufficiently reliable to satisfy the requirements of Federal Rule of Evidence 702 or comparable State rules for the admissibility of expert evidence

In re Aircrash in Bali, Indonesia, 684 F.2d 1301, 1315 (9th Cir. 1982) (reversing judgment and remanding for new trial on the issue of willful misconduct in wrongful death action in which the trial court excluded evidence of pilot's training records and disallowed plaintiffs' expert to testify on the...The negligent or incompetent character of an agent or employee is an essential element of a negligent entrustment claim. If the negligent character or incompetence of the agent or employee is at issue, evidence about the negligence or incompetence of the agent or employee is not barred by the rule prohibiting the use of a person's character to show the person's conduct.

United States v. Ward, 377 F.3d 671, 675 (7th Cir. 2004) (upholding trial court's admission of evidence that defendant husband had remained silent because (1) "statement was made during the conversation, in which....An adoptive admission is exempt from the prohibition against hearsay evidence.

Williamson v. United States, 512 U.S. 594, pin? (1994).A statement falls within the federal hearsay exception for statements against interest only if the statement at the time of its making so far contrary to the declarant's pecuniary or proprietary interest, or so far tended to subject the declarant to civil or criminal liability, or to render invalid a claim by the declarant against another, that a reasonable person in the declarant's position would not have made the statement unless believing it to be true.