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Where Appeals Begin

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I remember listening to Justice Frank Cleckley of the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, my professor for Evidence, open his first lecture with a discussion of Federal Rule of Evidence 103. As a young law student, I was...more

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Georgia Appellate Court Signals Adoption of Federal Precedent for State Pattern Jury Instructions

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The Georgia Court of Appeals recently considered a challenge to Georgia’s preponderance-of-the-evidence pattern jury instruction, which is based upon a repealed version of Georgia’s prior evidence code. Reading from the...more

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Voluntary Disclosure of a Communication with Counsel: The CT Appellate Court Recognizes “Subject Matter” Waiver

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Accordingly, we hold that the voluntary disclosure of a privileged attorney-client communication constitutes a waiver of the privilege as to all other communications concerning the same subject matter when the trial court...more

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If it’s Not Legit, You Can’t Admit

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The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed a district court ruling of non-infringement based on the inadmissibility of unauthenticated printouts of source code as evidence. Wi-LAN Inc. v. Sharp Elecs. Corp.,...more

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