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ARTICLE: “Qualification” Under F.R.E. 702: Fifth Circuit v. Eleventh Circuit Perspectives

Federal Rule of Evidence 702 governs the qualification requirement for experts in all federal courts, but there are developing, divergent trends in the Eleventh and Fifth Circuits about what this means, with the Eleventh Circuit tending to require a higher level of specialization for an expert to qualify, and the Fifth Circuit considering specialization within a field to go to the weight, rather than the admissibility, of the expert testimony.

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