Category: Law Expert Witness
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Experts are entitled to a reasonable fee despite objections to the admissibility of their opinions
In February 2016, Plaintiffs-Appellants Scott Miller and Michael Spaulding, two Seattle Police officers, fatally shot Che Andre Taylor, a Black man, as they tried to arrest him. Four days after the shooting, Defendant-Appellee Kshama Sawant, then a member of the Seattle City Council, told a crowd of protestors in front of the Seattle Police Department…
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Class Size Calculations of Economics Expert Witness Held to be Reliable
Spokeo owns and operates the website spokeo.com. It collects consumer and public data from various public sources and private vendors, associates that data with particular names, and publishes it online. Using proprietary algorithms and systems, Spokeo “attempts to collect and aggregate and merge all that data into persons, person objects, which are then designated with…