Category: Psychology Expert Witness
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Psychology Expert’s Testimony on Emotional Damages Excluded
Plaintiff Mollie Minskoff brought this case against her former boyfriend, Defendant Hector Mendoza Jr., for sexual assault and sexual battery. Defendant brought a counterclaim for defamation, in response to which Plaintiff brought a counterclaim under New York’s Anti-Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation statute. Plaintiff and Defendant engaged in an “on-again, off-again sexual relationship between 2010…
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Psychology Expert’s Opinion on the Harm Resulting from the Alleged Misconduct Admitted
This is a pro se prisoner action brought by Plaintiff William A. White relating to White’s detention at the John E. Polk Correctional Facility, in Sanford, Florida, between May and December 2014. Plaintiff’s claims arise out of his placement in the isolation unit due to information received from the U.S. Marshals that White was a…
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Law And Legal Expert’s Speculative Calculations of Future Earnings Excluded
Drew Dixon alleged that the Defendant, Antonio Marquis “L.A.” Reid sexually harassed her and refused to allow her to succeed unless she acquiesced to his demand to be alone and in close proximity to her while she was employed as an A&R executive at Arista Records from 1996 to 2002. Dixon claimed that Antonio Reid sexually…
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Psychology Expert’s Testimony on Loss of Consortium Excluded
Heather Blanchard died after undergoing a surgery at Madigan Army Medical Center. Heather’s husband Roy Blanchard was present in the hospital when Heather first finished surgery. Roy asserts his struggle with grief following Heather’s death has impacted his career and earning capacity. At the time of Heather’s death, Roy worked at J.P. Morgan in a private…
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Marketing Expert’s Post-Sale Confusion Survey is Admissible
Think Green Limited (“Think Green”) has taken Medela AG and Medela LLC (“Medela”) to Court, accusing them of infringing on the trade dress rights it holds in its breast pump and misleading consumers through false advertising. Rhonda J. Harper, a Think Green expert witness in areas involving marketing, branding, and consumer research, used various analytical…
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Psychology Expert’s Failure to Disclose Does Not Warrant Exclusion
Kiel Green fell to the ground after hitting the back of his elbow on a pallet of metal shelving while returning from a wooden wagon display containing beef jerky. At the time Green entered Atwood’s, Defendant was in the process of conducting a “reset” and various departments and merchandise were in the process of being…
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Psychiatry Experts’ Opinions on Causation and Permanency Admitted
This action arises from the pled sexual assault of Plaintiff Margaret Betts by a massage therapist during an in-room massage appointment at Sixty LES, a hotel owned and managed by Defendants Sixty Lower East Side, LLC, Sixty Hotels, LLC, and Sixty Hotel Manager, LLC. Plaintiff has proffered two expert witnesses, Dr. Steven A. Fayer and…
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Psychology Expert’s Testimony on the Process of Memory Formation Admitted
In October 2019, Nan Morgan McCartney was severely burned while attempting to start a fire in her backyard firepit. She used a plastic gasoline container manufactured by Scepter. McCartney has given multiple different accounts of the incident over time, but the most recent account (in her deposition) is that she was trying to pour gas from…
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Psychology Expert’s Opinions Regarding Suicide by Cop Excluded
This civil rights case arises out of the officer-involved detention and shooting of Hector Puga (“Decedent”) by California Highway Patrol officers Isaiah Kee, Michael Blackwood, and Bernardo Rubalcava (“State Defendants”) and County of San Bernardino deputies Jake Adams and Robert Vaccari (“County Defendants”) that resulted in Decedent’s death on February 17, 2021. At the Final…
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Psychology Expert’s Testimony on the Impact of Decades of Incarceration Admitted
The Plaintiff, Glynn Simmons, was wrongfully imprisoned for nearly 49 years after a 1974 murder conviction and was exonerated in 2023. He filed a civil rights lawsuit seeking damages for the constitutional violations that led to his wrongful conviction and decades of incarceration. As a result, Simmons sued the City of Edmond, the City of…
