3/18/07 (FL): Padilla Case – Judge Allows Expert Testimony A federal judge has allowed expert testimony in the upcoming Padilla terrorism trial, but warned that experts should not be allowed to draw conclusions of guilt or innocence for jurors.

3/06/07 (NV): Workplace Discrimination & Violence Definitions Argued This was recently hotly debated in a Nevada civil lawsuit brought by four black Texans against Walgreen.

3/04/07 (VA): Older Witnesses Not So Reliable, Says Study Older adults are more likely than their young counterparts to make mistakes in memory, and are also more likely to insist that they are right, a University of Virginia study suggests.

3/02/07 (CT): Supply Teacher Faces Jail Over Pop-Up Porn A substitute teacher faces up to 40 years in jail after pornographic website images were displayed to her seventh-grade students. But the conviction has sparked mass outrage in many quarters, and an appeal is top be launched.

3/01/07 (ID): Idaho Supreme Court Rules Expert Qualified Reversing an earlier decision, the Court ruled that expert Dr Edward Smith was indeed a competent expert in the case of Weeks v. Eastern Idaho Health Services (no. 32458).

2/27/07 (OH): Election Procedures on Trial Again – Expert Testifies The Squire v. Geer case is more than just a mere election challenge lawsuit; the reliability of electronic voting was on trial last week in a small courtroom in Franklin County, Ohio.