Opinion ID: 220659
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Heading Rank: 3

Heading: The District Court Properly Excluded the News Article

Text: Dulin's argument that the district court erred by refusing to admit the Article has no merit. Newspaper articles are classic, inadmissible hearsay. Roberts v. City of Shreveport, 397 F.3d 287, 295 (5th Cir.2005). Dulin sought to admit the Article to prove the truth of the matters asserted in it: that the Board members had made certain statements. He does not argue that an exception to the hearsay rule applies. The Article is inadmissable under Federal Rules of Evidence 801(c) and 802. Further, any hypothetical error in the district court's evidentiary ruling was clearly harmless because Darden, the article's author, testified at trial as to what he observed at the League meeting.