Legal Opinion
Odessa Dee Hall v. United Insurance Co. of America
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided April 30, 2004No. 03-14527PublishedCited by 338 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BIRCH, Circuit Judge:
The novel issue presented in this appeal involves the interplay between two Federal Rules of Evidence: 901(b)(2), which allows non-expert opinion testimony about the genuineness of handwriting evidence based on sufficient familiarity, and 701, which allows lay opinion testimony that is rationally based on personal perceptions. Plaintiff-appellant, Odessa Dee Hall (“Hall”), filed an affidavit stating that a signature on a document purporting to cancel an insurance policy with defendant-appellee, United Insurance Company of America (“United”), was not authentic. The…
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