Co-author  Chance Decker

What does it take these days to get money from a Texas jury? Not much, it seems; in XTO v. Goodwin the trick was convincing a higher court that you should keep it.

Let’s start with the minefield that is the law of evidence:

• Expert opinion testimony must be based on facts, and sound reasoning and methodology.
• Conclusory or speculative opinion testimony is not relevant.
• An opinion with no factual substantiation is speculative or conclusory.
• Expert testimony based on unreliable data or flawed methodology is unreliable and does not satisfy the relevancy requirement.
• Unreliable expert testimony is legally no evidence.

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