Category: Psychology Expert Witness
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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…
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Psychology Expert’s Testimony on the Grave Risk of Harm Admitted
Petitioner brought this action under the 1980 Hague Convention and the International Child Abduction Remedies Act, seeking the return of his minor child, S.A.M., to Switzerland. He alleged that Respondent wrongfully removed the child to Missouri in April 2025 without his consent and was unlawfully retaining custody. Asserting joint custody rights, Petitioner identified Switzerland as…
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Psychology Expert Witness’ Testimony Regarding Alleged Coercion Admitted
On September 28, 2016, Terence B. Tekoh (“Plaintiff”) brought a suit against the County of Los Angeles, the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department (“LASD”), LASD Sergeant Dennis Stangeland, LASD Deputy Carlos Vega, and Does 1-10, alleging violations of his civil rights. Dr. Iris Blandon Gitlin (“Dr. Gitlin”) is one of Plaintiff’s designated retained experts and is…
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Psychology Expert Lacks Experience Personally Dealing with Compartment Syndrome
This medical negligence lawsuit stems from injuries Fitzgerald sustained after he allegedly developed compartment syndrome in his right leg while hospitalized at St. Anthony Summit Medical Center (“Summit”) after a snowboarding accident in January 2019. Fitzgerald claimed that the delayed diagnosis and treatment of his compartment syndrome by his healthcare providers, Dr. Xan Courville and…
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Psychology Expert Witness’ Testimony on Plaintiff’s Suicidal Ideation Admitted
Plaintiff was raped in September 2018, when she was a student at Louisiana Tech University. Her attacker—known to her only as “Daniel”—was also a Tech student, having recently transferred from University of Louisiana Lafayette (“UL Lafayette ). At the time, Plaintiff did not know that “Daniel” was a sexual predator who had been reported for…
