context: Plaintiffs' concerns about the conclusions these experts' experience led them to, and the believability of those conclusions, go to the weight of the testimony and can be appropriately addressed through cross-examination.
citation_a.signal: see also
citation_a.identifier: 924 F.Supp.2d 74, 96
citation_a.parenthetical: "If the District has an issue with how Mr. Day classified certain late releases, it may address this on cross-examination."
citation_a.sentence: See U.S. v. H & R Block, Inc., 831 F.Supp.2d 27, 34 (D.D.C.2011) (noting that “technical deficiencies that can be adequately explored on cross-examination generally go to the weight, rather than the admissibility, of the evidence, unless the methodological deficiencies are so sweeping or fundamental as to render the survey wholly unreliable and therefore inadmissible”); see also Groobert, 219 F.Supp.2d at 9 (recognizing that “[t]he D.C. Circuit has stated that, ‘by attempting to evaluate the credibility of opposing experts and the persuasiveness of - competing studies, the district court conflate[s] the questions of the admissibility of expert testimony and the weight appropriately to be accorded such testimony by a factfinder’ ”) (quoting Ambrosini, 101 F.3d at 141); Barnes v. District of Columbia, 924 F.Supp.2d 74, 96 (D.D.C.2013) (“If the District has an issue with how Mr. Day classified certain late releases, it may address this on cross-examination.”); Harris v. Koenig, 815 F.Supp.2d 6, 10 (D.D.C. 2011) (“Whether or not [expert’s testimony] is based on ‘unreasonable assumptions’ will be determined at trial after full cross-examination.”); S.E.C. v. Johnson, 525 F.Supp.2d 70, 76 (D.D.C.2007) (“It is for the jury,- not the Court, to determine whether [expert’s] opinions are suspect be cause the facts upon which he relied were shown to be inaccurate or unproven”).
citation_b.signal: see
citation_b.identifier: 831 F.Supp.2d 27, 34
citation_b.parenthetical: noting that "technical deficiencies that can be adequately explored on cross-examination generally go to the weight, rather than the admissibility, of the evidence, unless the methodological deficiencies are so sweeping or fundamental as to render the survey wholly unreliable and therefore inadmissible"
citation_b.sentence: See U.S. v. H & R Block, Inc., 831 F.Supp.2d 27, 34 (D.D.C.2011) (noting that “technical deficiencies that can be adequately explored on cross-examination generally go to the weight, rather than the admissibility, of the evidence, unless the methodological deficiencies are so sweeping or fundamental as to render the survey wholly unreliable and therefore inadmissible”); see also Groobert, 219 F.Supp.2d at 9 (recognizing that “[t]he D.C. Circuit has stated that, ‘by attempting to evaluate the credibility of opposing experts and the persuasiveness of - competing studies, the district court conflate[s] the questions of the admissibility of expert testimony and the weight appropriately to be accorded such testimony by a factfinder’ ”) (quoting Ambrosini, 101 F.3d at 141); Barnes v. District of Columbia, 924 F.Supp.2d 74, 96 (D.D.C.2013) (“If the District has an issue with how Mr. Day classified certain late releases, it may address this on cross-examination.”); Harris v. Koenig, 815 F.Supp.2d 6, 10 (D.D.C. 2011) (“Whether or not [expert’s testimony] is based on ‘unreasonable assumptions’ will be determined at trial after full cross-examination.”); S.E.C. v. Johnson, 525 F.Supp.2d 70, 76 (D.D.C.2007) (“It is for the jury,- not the Court, to determine whether [expert’s] opinions are suspect be cause the facts upon which he relied were shown to be inaccurate or unproven”).