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Biological & life sciences: Whether expert evidence...

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Whether expert evidence based on or involving biological or life sciences is sufficiently reliable to satisfy the requirements of Federal Rule of Evidence 702 or comparable State rules for the admissibility of expert evidence

Contributed in 2009 by Peter Tillers

Last edited in 2009 by Joel Friedman

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