Explaining the Tension between the Supreme Court's Embrace of Validity as the Touchstone of Admissibility of Expert Testimony and Lower Courts' (Seeming) Rejection of Same

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Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 329-342

  Saks, Michael J ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 85010634430     PISSN: 17423600     EISSN: 17500117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3366/E1742360008000439     Document Type: Article

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