Category: Psychiatry Expert Witness
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Psychiatry Expert Witness’ Testimony Regarding the Criteria for Cannabis Use Disorder Admitted
Defendant Ryan Vangdy is charged with knowingly possessing firearms while being an unlawful user of a controlled substance. The government filed a motion to exclude Defendant’s expert, Dr. Gregory Nawalanic. The government argued that the Court can exclude Nawalanic under Rule 702 for several reasons, specifically that the testimony is irrelevant, unhelpful to the jury, only…
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Judge Declares Law Banning Transition Care Unconstitutional
More often than not, public school employees call students by the pronouns matching the gender on their birth certificate, no matter the child’s preference and it is a misdemeanor to use restrooms in public buildings that do not correspondent to the person’s gender at birth. If lawmakers advance bills that mandate the same, how do…
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Psychiatry Expert Witness’ Testimony Regarding Plaintiff’s Pain and Suffering Related to his Defamation Claims Rejected
In this pending lawsuit, which was the product of consolidated cases: Case No. 20-1074, the Lead Case, and Case No. 22-1186, the Member Case, Fazio filed a second amended complaint in the Lead Case against Metropolitan Casualty Insurance Company (“Metropolitan Casualty”), Naihomi Figueroa Fontánez (“Ms. Figueroa”), and Isaías Soto Reyes (“Mr. Soto”) on September 29,…
