Commercial Litigation and Arbitration

April 10, 2007

Are statements in a newspaper article admissible in Federal Court for the truth? If the article is more than 20 years old, the answer is generally yes. Federal Rule of Evidence 803(16) — the ‛Ancient Documents“ rule — provides that ‛[s]tatements in a document in existence twenty years or more the authenticity of which is established“ are not excluded b ...
Are statements in a newspaper article admissible in Federal Court for the truth? If the article is more than 20 years old, the answer is generally yes. Federal Rule of Evidence 803(16) — the ‛Ancient Documents“ rule — provides that…

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