Opinion ID: 183831
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Heading Rank: 1

Heading: Vanita Spaulding's Second Declaration

Text: As a threshold issue, we do not upset the district court's decision to strike Vanita Spaulding's declaration pursuant to Federal Rule of Evidence 403, Exclusion of Relevant Evidence on Grounds of Prejudice, Confusion, or Waste of Time, and Federal Rule of Evidence 702, Testimony by Experts, because the court did not abuse its discretion in doing so. The district court properly perceived that allowing Spaulding's testimony as to the viability of stand-alone adult entertainment arcades would confuse the issues under Fed.R.Evid. 403 because it is based on evidence of the profitability of adult arcades only when combined with an adult bookstore. Alameda Books, 2008 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 108860, at -41. Similarly, the court properly excluded her declaration under Fed.R.Evid. 702 in view of her unsupported assumption of a relationship between the current profitability of adult arcades and their viability as free-standing units. See, e.g., McGlinchy v. Shell Chem. Co., 845 F.2d 802, 806-07 (9th Cir.1988). Finally, the district court properly observed that Spaulding had no experience or familiarity with the adult entertainment industry. Therefore, excluding Spaulding's second declaration was a permissible exercise of the district court's discretion over the admissibility of evidence. [9]