Publishing expert witness testimony based on experience need not meet Daubert...
The profession of literary agency is one that is largely reliant on experience, knowledge, shared history and informal networking. There are no textbooks on the trade, neither any law that sets the...
View ArticleMedical expert witness allowed to testify about nursing standards in Ohio
Medical expert witnesses are usually consulted for testifying on core medical issues whereas nurse practitioners, nursing administrators or nursing supervisors are retained for giving opinion on...
View ArticleComputer forensics expert witness relied upon by Fourth Circuit in child...
The process of forensic data extraction requires specialized knowledge, skill or education that is usually not in possession of the jurors. Acknowledging this fact, the Fourth Circuit recently relied...
View ArticlePolice procedures expert witness precluded in New Jersey for offering legal...
A District Court must ensure that an expert does not testify as to the governing law of the case because that would usurp the Court’s pivotal role in explaining the law to the jury. Keeping this in...
View ArticleFourth Circuit affirms exclusion of toxicology expert witness along with...
To prove causation in a toxic tort action, a Plaintiff must offer relevant and reliable expert testimony, as the health effects of toxic exposure to chemicals are beyond the knowledge and experience of...
View ArticleInsurance expert witness and bad faith expert witness battle it out in Colorado
Pursuant to a bad faith insurance dispute that is set for a nine-day jury trial commencing on August 26, 2013, the Colorado District Court recently found itself flooded by a number of motions...
View ArticleProduct liability expert witness was erroneously excluded: Seventh Circuit
[As per the ruling in Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals] the district court is responsible for acting as a gatekeeper to ensure that all admitted expert testimony satisfies Rule 702 reliability...
View ArticlePetroleum engineering expert witness testimony gets evaluated in BP oil spill...
Amongst the multitude of litigations that errupted against BP Plc after the infamous BP oil spill in April 2010, one was on obstruction of justice charge set against a former BP engineer. In this...
View ArticleMedical and statistics expert witness testimonies admitted in fraud trial in...
In an attempt to render holistic justice by broadening the scope of expert testimonies beyond the black and white of their respective fields of expertise, the New York District Court was recently...
View ArticleMarine safety expert witness admitted in Louisiana
In determining the admissibility of expert testimony, the focus must be solely on principles and methodology, not on the conclusions that they generate. Once again stressing on this principle, the...
View ArticleSports and recreation expert witness reviewed in Pennsylvania
In this interesting case that “brought the court to the Court”, the Pennsylvania District Court reviewed and partly admitted the testimony of a sports and recreation expert witness in connection to a...
View ArticleForensic pathology expert witness need not use empirical data in order to...
While challenging expert testimonies for lack of reliable methodology, many a times the parties tend to forget that under Federal Rule of Evidence 703, experts can reasonably rely on facts or data...
View ArticleEngineering expert witnesses testify in Illinois despite lack of prior...
Recently in the case of Lott v. ITW Food Equipment Group LLC, the Illinois District Court admitted expert testimonies of two engineering expert witnesses despite their limited experience and absence of...
View ArticleRebuttal testimony of employment discrimination expert witness admitted in...
Employment discrimination has long been a subject matter of lawsuits all over the world. While many of them have genuine causes, a lot more are frivolous litigation defaming the employers and clogging...
View ArticlePsychology expert witness admitted in Catholic clergy sexual abuse case in...
Sexual abuse of children by Catholic clerics has been a significant albeit shameful aspect of Catholic clerical culture for centuries. Recently the New Jersey District Court came across one such case...
View ArticleCourt rules on orthopedic and pediatrics expert witness testimony in Minnesota
Three medical expert witnesses, two of them specialising in pediatrics and the third one in orthopedic surgery, were recently reviewed by the Minnesota District Court in connection to a GBS infection...
View ArticleEyewitness identification expert witness was rightly precluded: Fourth Circuit
Eyewitness testimony acts as an extremely powerful tool in determining a person’s guilt or innocence in both positive and negative senses. While there is nothing truer than a valid eyewitness...
View ArticleFood safety expert witness excluded in Ruby Tuesday case in Pennsylvania
Sometimes while testifying the experts seem to forget the exact issue at hand and end up offering opinions on something which is not at all related to the facts of the case. The Pennsylvania District...
View ArticleVirgin Island Court denies three motions to exclude expert testimony in...
“What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another.” ― Mahatma Gandhi In a multi-count environmental lawsuit involving...
View ArticleMarine safety expert witness gets partially excluded in Louisiana for...
The Louisiana District Court recently ruled upon another marine safety expert witness testimony – the third within a span of one month, this time admitting it in part and excluding the rest for no...
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