Category: Accounting Expert Witness
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Accounting Expert Witness’ Analysis of Costs and Markups Admitted
The Trade Group’s (“TTG”) is a full-service event marketing and creative design firm well known for its award-winning designs and client-centered service mentality. BTC Media, LLC (“BTCM”), a Bitcoin and blockchain media company approached TTG about managing, planning, and producing Bitcoin 2021, the world’s largest bitcoin conference held in Miami, Florida. After a successful Bitcoin…
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Defendant’s Objections against the Accounting Expert Witness’ Damages Calculations Overruled
A district judge in North Carolina refused to exclude the accounting expert witness’ calculations of the Defendants’ revenues and profits earned in connection with their sales. Plaintiff and Defendants sell heat transfer systems to industrial customers. In 2016, Plaintiff sued Defendants for trade secret misappropriation, breach of contract, unfair competition, and patent claims. That litigation…
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Accounting Expert Witness’ Opinions on Due Diligence Procedures Admitted
A district judge in Mississippi held that the accounting expert witness was more than qualified to testify about the due diligence requirements in the stock purchase agreement in question. Facts of the case: Casey Morgan (“Morgan”) and Jimmy Ward (“Ward”) (collectively “Plaintiffs”) previously owned and operated Bigfoot Land Services, Inc. (“Bigfoot” or “the company”), an…
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Accounting Expert Witness Testimony Found to Lack Understanding of the Type of Business at Issue
James Swain Rieves, who operated Platinum Vapor, LLC, doing business as Cloud 9 Hemp faced legal trouble when the Town of Smyrna Police Department (hereinafter “SPD”) discovered the sale of Cannabidiol (CBD) products by the business in May 2017. The Smyrna Police Departmentraided Cloud 9’s premises and seized tens of thousands of dollars ininventory, along…
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Accounting Expert Witness’ Two-Party Market Analysis Admitted
Hayward Industries, Inc. (the Plaintiff), a company in the pool industry, filed a complaint against competitors (the Defendants) over the sale of aftermarket replacement salt cells for use in Plaintiff’s chlorine generator systems. Chlorine generators, also known as “salt cell systems,” convert dissolved salt into chlorine to sanitize pools. Chlorine generator systems replace the need…
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“Unexplained” Methodology employed by Accounting Expert Witness passes Daubert Test after Court notes that merits and drawbacks of the Methodology have been discussed
Plaintiffs BRP Colleague Inc. (“BRP Colleague”) and Baldwin Krystyn Sherman Partners, LLC (“BKS”) jointly referred to as “BRP,” had initiated legal proceedings against Defendants Edward (Teddy) Gillen (“Gillen”) and Edgewood Partners Insurance Center Inc. (“EPIC”) concerning Gillen’s prior association with BRP and his subsequent employment with EPIC, a direct competitor of BRP. BRP (together with…
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Evidence of Causation Necessary to Support Damages Theory; Court Limits Clashing Expert Testimony on Economic Damages
This copyright infringement case was brought by JBrick, LLC (“JBrick”) against Chazak Kinder, Inc., Chazak Distribution, Inc., Marav USA LLC, and Yaacov Schwartz (collectively “Defendants”) in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York. JBrick alleged that the Defendants infringed on their copyright for a lego model of the Second Holy…
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FTX Founder’s Experts Face Exclusion in Cryptocurrency Fraud Case
The upcoming fraud trial of FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried recently faced a major development regarding expert witnesses. Federal prosecutors filed motions to completely exclude all seven expert witnesses noticed by Bankman-Fried’s defense team. The Government argues the testimony of experts including a barrister, professors, and industry professionals would be irrelevant, unreliable, confusing, or prejudicial. Specifically,…
