Until 1997, when the Supreme Court decided General Electric v. Joiner, 522 U.S. 136, (1997), I had never heard of the term ipse dixit. Now, almost every month I read a decision in which that phrase ...

Sometimes, lawyers talk funny. Exactly, what is it about attorneys that engenders such prolixity? Ipse dixit is but one of seemly limitless examples. Years ago, I ran across this archaic term in a ...

There are few legal phrases more fun to say than “ipse dixit.” The phrase is most commonly used in motions to exclude experts who base their opinions on nothing more than their own say so. As the ...

A reader of the newly declassified “torture memo” finds herself tempted to live-blog it; that is, to offer online, real-time notes that otherwise would be scrawled in the margins replete with all ...

In the space of a single paragraph, General Electric Co. v. Joiner softened Daubert’s comment that a court’s assessment of expert opinion admissibility should focus “solely on principles and ...