Law School Toolbox Podcast Episode 326: Listen and Learn -- Multiple Hearsay
Bar Exam Toolbox Podcast Episode 158: Listen and Learn -- Multiple Hearsay
Law School Toolbox Podcast Episode 315: Listen and Learn -- Non-Hearsay
Law School Toolbox Podcast Episode 308: Listen and Learn -- More Hearsay Exceptions
Bar Exam Toolbox Podcast Episode 143: Listen and Learn -- More Hearsay Exceptions
Law School Toolbox Podcast Episode 301: Listen and Learn -- The Confrontation Clause
Bar Exam Toolbox Podcast Episode 138: Listen and Learn -- Hearsay Exceptions: Prior Testimony and Past Recollection Recorded
Bar Exam Toolbox Podcast Episode 137: Listen and Learn -- The Confrontation Clause
Law School Toolbox Podcast Episode 296: Listen and Learn -- Hearsay Exceptions: Government and Business Records
Bar Exam Toolbox Podcast Episode 132: Listen and Learn -- Hearsay Exceptions: Government and Business Records
Bar Exam Toolbox Podcast Episode 115: Listen and Learn -- Dying Declaration vs. Excited Utterance
Bar Exam Toolbox Podcast Episode 114: Listen and Learn -- Non-Hearsay
Law School Toolbox Podcast Episode 271: Listen and Learn -- Hearsay Exceptions: Present Sense Impression and State of Mind
Law School Toolbox Podcast Episode 261: Listen and Learn -– The Basics of Hearsay
Bar Exam Toolbox Podcast Episode 101: Listen and Learn -- Present Sense Impression vs. State of Mind
Bar Exam Toolbox Podcast Episode 89: Listen and Learn -- What is Hearsay?
Bar Exam Toolbox Podcast Episode 79: Tackling an MEE Criminal Law/Procedure and Evidence Essay
Hearsay is an important legal concept that lawyers learn in law school. Under Federal Rule of Evidence 801, hearsay is an out-of-court statement offered for the truth of the matter asserted. Even many lawyers are often...more
Hearsay is simple enough to define – it is an out of court statement offered for the truth of the matter asserted. But practicing attorneys know that the definition of hearsay is deceptively complex. Questions like, “what is...more
No visit to New Orleans is complete without a bowl of gumbo. There are many preferences, of course, but every great bowl of gumbo has the same foundation. It is of no consequence whether you prefer Dooky Chase’s savory, porky...more
New York’s unique approach to evidentiary procedure – and specifically, its rules governing admissions by a party opponent’s agent – have frustrated litigators for years....more
Late last week, the Law Court unequivocally adopted the integrated business records exception to the hearsay rule under Rule 803(6) of the Maine Rules of Evidence in The Bank of New York Mellon v. Shone. It held...more
In The Bank of New York Mellon v. Shone, 2020 ME 122, ---A.3d---, decided October 22, 2020, the Maine Law Court unequivocally adopted the integrated business records exception to the hearsay rule under Rule 803(6) of the...more
Federal court practitioners should be aware that, as of December 1, 2019, the Federal Rules of Evidence’s “Residual Hearsay Exception,” Rule 807, has been revised. The revisions are intended to create a more uniform standard...more
The Federal Rules of Evidence usually deem all hearsay – out-of-court statements offered to prove the truth of the matter asserted – inadmissible unless the statement falls into one of the hearsay exceptions contained in...more
The United States Supreme Court recently amended Federal Rule of Evidence Rule 807, the residual exception to the hearsay rule. These amendments significantly broaden the scope of the exception, which may lead to the...more
The 1st Circuit Court of Appeals recently affirmed a district court’s ruling to allow in evidence a mortgage loan account history printout that included entries from two prior loan servicers as a business record exception to...more
The residual exception in Federal Rule of Evidence 807 provides a vehicle for the admission of hearsay statements that are not otherwise admissible under Rule 803 or 804. As the Fifth Circuit has observed, though, the...more
In a rare move, the Second Circuit (Jacobs, Pooler, Hall) overturned Armani Cummings’s convictions for murder, conspiracy, and multiple drugs and firearms offenses. The Court reversed based on violation of the hearsay...more
FEDERAL CIRCUIT CASES - Federal Circuit Remands Case For New Damages Trial in Design Patent Case - On Tuesday, September 29, 2015, the Federal Circuit remanded a case for a new damages trial in a design patent...more