Railroad expert witness ruled upon in Missouri
Pursuant to a negligence suit filed against BNSF Railway Company, the Missouri District Court recently ruled upon a railroad expert witness, granting his testimony in part and denying the rest. Facts...
View ArticlePolice procedures expert testifies against corrupt officer
In this interesting face-off between an attorney and a police officer (Womack v. Conley), the Kentucky District Court reviewed and partially admitted a police procedure expert testimony despite his...
View ArticleWisconsin district court clarifies the finer nuances of Rule 26
The Wisconsin District Court recently passed a judgment in E.E.O.C. v. Aurora Health Care, Inc. where it once again clarified that Civil L.R.26(b)(1)(B) only incorporates Rule 26(a)(2)(B)(i) and not...
View ArticleEconomic expert witness testimony on patent damages accepted by Court
The case of Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc. v. First Quality Baby Products, LLC recently witnessed some interesting legal discussion on patent infringement and damages issues, as the Pennsylvania...
View ArticleExpert testimony not necessary to demonstrate bad faith: Pennsylvania...
Reiterating that the admission of an expert witness testimony rests within the sound discretion of the District Court, the Pennsylvania District Court ruled in Scott v. Geico General Ins. Co. that in a...
View ArticleIs a mechanical engineer really needed to opine on cause of accident?
The Virginia District Court recently accepted a mechanical engineering expert witness testimony in the case of Evans v. Home Depot U.S.A., Inc. to decide on an apparently simple issue of causation,...
View ArticleConstruction expert partially excluded in Louisiana for failure to exclude...
Relying on Fifth Circuit precedents, the Louisiana district court recently decided to partially exclude a construction expert witness in the case of LaShip, LLC v. Hayward Baker, Inc. for failing to...
View ArticleFraud investigation expert need not be an arson expert to testify regarding...
“Aucoin is not testifying about arson, he is testifying about fraud and the motive to commit fraud. Contrary to plaintiff’s purported quote of Aucoin, Aucoin does not in his report suggest that Wells...
View ArticleExperts can assist jurors even without a concrete methodology: Pennsylvania...
In yet another unexpected judgment, the Pennsylvania district court has declared on December 5, 2013 that “even if an expert does not have a concrete methodology, the expert’s testimony can still...
View ArticleExcluding plaintiff’s IP expert, Facebook scores in patent infringement case
The Virginia District Court recently excluded a renowned IP valuation and damages expert witness in the case of Rembrandt Social Media, LP v. Facebook, Inc. for calculating damages “far in excess of...
View ArticleBusiness law expert witness testifies in Citibank vs. Burlington
In a new development to the Citibank vs. City of Burlington case, the Vermont district court accepted a business law expert witness testimony in favour of the former, despite his lack of sufficient...
View ArticleSheriff of Lawrence County barred from being an expert witness at trial
The Court views the [Lawrence County Sheriff’s] testimony as Defendant’s effort to “launder” the facts through an “expert” in order to provide undeserved substantiation for Defendants’ views. Expert...
View ArticleTenth Circuit rules on gang expert testimony
Tenth Circuit Chief Judge Briscoe recently affirmed a New Mexico district court decision convicting a notorious mafia gang leader on Decemebr 17, 2013, saying admitting the gang expert’s testimony, as...
View ArticleMedical expert witness partially admitted in amusement park mishap
A medical expert witness testimony was partially admitted by the Indiana District Court in the Bahari River acid accident case (Higgins v. Koch Development Corp.). However, apart from his opinions...
View ArticleEighty-one year old lady sues casino with help from architecture expert witness
The Superior Court of Delaware recently came across this interesting case wherein an eighty-one year old lady sued a casino for failure to warn her against unmarked glass windows (Sweiger v. Delaware...
View ArticleTeleflora sued for substandard service – advertising expert witness fails to...
Teleflora, the largest privately held floral wire service company in the world was recently sued on account of substandard service and a renowned advertising expert witness was retained by the...
View ArticleCrying over spilt syrup: a Second Circuit judgment
On 20th December 2013, the Second Circuit vacated a New York district court ruling (Bynoe v. Target Corp.) for erroneously excluding a safety expert witness testimony on injuries caused by spilt syrup....
View ArticleMarketing experts prove their mettle in Tennessee
Two renowned marketing expert witnesses were recently hired by two litigating parties to conduct online surveys on the same topic and quite predictably, each expert managed to reach the result that was...
View ArticleFifth Circuit affirms exclusion of environmental engineering expert witness
A few scattered errors in an expert report are not necessarily grounds for exclusion. Here, however, the universe of facts assumed by the expert differs frequently and substantially from the undisputed...
View ArticleArchitecture expert witness testifies on Hurricane Dolly damage
Amongst the hundreds of hurricane property insurance problems that come up to Court everyday for denial and underpayment issues, the latest was Dinker v. Nationwide Mutual Ins. Co. The architecture...
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