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 ...
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 ...
Plaintiffs often disclose medical experts to opine not only as to the diagnosis or prognosis of an injury or medical condition, but also as to whether the defendant’s actions caused plaintiff’s ...
On April 4, Professor Lisa Tucker was featured on the legal scholarship podcast Ipse Dixit to discuss her paper “From Contract Rights to Contact Rights: Rethinking the Paradigm for Post-Adoption ...
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 ...
“Ipse Dixit: How the World Looks to a Federal Judge” by William L. Dwyer should be required reading for every new lawyer admitted to the Washington State Bar Association. Judge Dwyer was a legend both ...
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