Author: Expert Witness Profiler
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Standard Out-Of-Pocket Damages Methodology Employed by Economics Expert Witness Deemed Reliable
In 2007, SCANA received legislative approval to construct two nuclear reactors at the V.C. Summer Nuclear Generating Station in Fairfield County, South Carolina” (the “Nuclear Project”). Deloitte served as SCANA’s external auditor for over 70 years. International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 98 Pension Fund alleges that, “[t]hroughout the Class Period, Deloitte repeatedly violated its…
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Law Enforcement Expert Witness is Qualified to Opine On Tactics and Uses of Force Employed by the Police
This matter involves an incident that occurred on May 29, 2020, while Plaintiff, David Zuniga was present during the George Floyd protests in Grand Park, Downtown Los Angeles. During this time, Zuniga and his experts contended that he was struck with a nonlethal projectile to his head by Officer Aaron Green. Officer Green, and the…
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Mechanical Engineering Expert Witness’ Testimony Excluded Because He Lacks Extensive Experience in Metallurgical Science
This is a products liability case involving an articulating (i.e., multi-position) ladder manufactured by Little Giant Ladder Systems, LLC. On November 10, 2021, Jason Adams fell from a Little Giant ladder and suffered injuries. Adams asserted that he was using the ladder in the usual and ordinary manner when the rung on which he stood…
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Crime Scene Reconstruction Expert Witness Allowed to Testify Because He Did Not Base His Conclusion on Physiology
This matter stems from an incident which constituted an officer-involved shooting (sometimes referred to as “OIS”). On January 15, 2019, Defendant Oliver Simmonds was an Atlanta Police Department (“APD”) Officer operating in a plain clothes capacity as a member of the Department’s Executive Protection Unit (“EPU”). Simmonds was driving an unmarked APD vehicle. Simmonds stopped…
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Neuropsychology Expert Witness’ Testimony Regarding the Decedent’s Susceptibility to Undue Influence Admitted
In this instant interpleader action filed by Plaintiff Minnesota Life Insurance Company, Defendant Melissa D. Alexander (“Alexander”) claimed that undue influence caused her estranged husband to change a beneficiary designation on a life insurance policy. This change directed benefits to the decedent’s mother, Defendant Marcia Gayle (“Gayle”), and an adult son. Alexander sought to exclude…
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History Expert Witness Allowed to Testify Because He Utilized the Same Methodology Used By All Historians
This case involves the alleged unconstitutionality of House Bill No. 71, Act 676 (“H.B. 71” or the “Act”). This law provides in relevant part: No later than January 1, 2025, each public school governing authority shall display the Ten Commandments in each classroom in each school under its jurisdiction. The nature of the display shall…
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Music Industry Expert Witness’ Testimony on Proximity of Products Admitted
The parties in this case are estranged corporate siblings. Plaintiff Ultra Records LLC is a music recording company. Defendant Ultra International Music Publishing LLC is a music publishing company. (The Court refers to Ultra Records as “Records” and Ultra International Music Publishing as “Publishing.”) Records has sued Publishing for trademark infringement under the Lanham Act,…
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Extensive and Complicated Report by Architecture Expert Witness Admitted Despite Claims of Insufficient Disclosure
In 2015, Defendant/Counter-Plaintiff C70 Builders, Inc. contracted with Plaintiff Mid-South Outlet Shops, LLC c/o Tanger Management, LLC for the construction of the Tanger Outlets Southaven, an open-air mall in Southaven, Mississippi. The Mall opened in November 2015. According to C70, the first design modifications were subsequently installed at several buildings on the Project by C70…
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Law & Legal Expert Witness’ Testimony Excluded Despite Her Experience Assessing the “Cognitive Abilities” of Adults
This case is an interpleader action to determine the rightful beneficiary of a $114,000 life insurance policy. The dispute centers around whether Gary Lee Alexander (“Gary”) had the capacity to execute a change in beneficiary designation on September 3, 2020, and whether Defendant Marcia Gayle (Gayle) unduly influenced Gary to make that change. In response,…
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Firearms & Ballistics Expert Witness’ Conclusions about how Bullets Behave Within the Body Admitted
Antoinette Tillman, Individually and as Adminstratrix of the Estate of George Homer Tillman III, brought this action on behalf of George Homer Tillman III against Defendants alleging excessive deadly force, as well as corresponding claims under New York state law, all stemming from a fatal police shooting that occurred on April 17, 2016. The Defendants…
