United States Eleventh Circuit

Because plaintiff could not demonstrate sufficient familiarity with the handwriting of the alleged signatory as required under Federal Rule of Evidence 901(b)(2), her lay opinion testimony was not rationally based on her own perceptions as required under Rule 701.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/30/2004
• Published 04/30/2004

Judges

• BIRCH, Circuit Judge:, Before BIRCH, MARCUS and BRUNETTI , Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• S. Mitchell Howie,Samuel T. Russell, Sirote & Permutt, P.C., Huntsville, AL, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Kevin E. Clark, William H. Brooks, Lightfoot, Franklin & White, LLC, Birmingham, AL, for Defendants-Appellees.