Tag: methodology
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Cybersecurity Expert Not Allowed to Opine on ADA Compliance Requirements
In May 2025, Plaintiff Richard Paul Merrell filed the operative putative class action complaint against Defendant Ralph Lauren Corporation. Plaintiff is visually impaired and legally blind, and he uses screen-reading software to read website content using his computer. Screen-reading software (or a “screen reader”) allows blind and visually impaired users to access websites using a…
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Transportation Engineering Expert Allowed to Opine on Traffic Safety
Plaintiffs Yafeng Zhu and Shuhui Zhang filed this action in March 2024 for damages stemming from a motor vehicle accident that occurred in April 2022. Specifically, Plaintiffs alleged that at approximately 12:21 a.m. on April 1, 2022, Plaintiff Zhu was traveling westbound on a two-lane section of Interstate 70 in Bond County, Illinois, as part…
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Veterinary Medicine Expert Allowed to Opine on Sources of Contamination
Plaintiff Kim Gentry trains riders and horses in dressage. This professional negligence case concerns the untimely death of Gentry’s beloved horse, Dantique, and Gentry’s dashed hopes to perpetuate Dantique’s bloodline. Plaintiff retained an equine appraiser, Tanja Schnuderl, as well as a veterinary expert, Robert Boswell. Defendants sought to exclude the testimony of both experts. Equine…
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Insurance Expert Allowed to Opine on Sales Tax Depreciation Practices
Plaintiffs Melissa Pitkin and Dan Grout own a home together in Healdsburg, California. They hold a homeowner’s insurance policy from State Farm, policy number 57-C4-6752-1 (the “Policy”), which covered certain losses to their home and all of its contents. The Policy included the “main policy form” (FP-7955, CA) as well as a “homeowners endorsement form”…
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Geology Expert Was Allowed to Opine on Subsurface Conditions
This case arises out of Plaintiffs’ claim that structural damage to their home at 496 Southwood Drive in Madisonville, Kentucky, was caused by coal mine subsidence. Val Smith and Gwen Smith obtained a homeowners’ policy from American Strategic Insurance Corp. (“ASIC”) and claimed that mine subsidence caused structural movement and cracking. ASIC denied the claim…
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Psychiatry Expert Allowed to Opine on Psychological Injuries
Plaintiff Brigid “Bridie” Farrell alleged that Defendant Gabel groomed and sexually abused her from June 1997 to January 1998. Plaintiff filed a motion to exclude the expert testimony of Defendants’ expert, Dr. Charles Saldanha, pursuant to Rule 702 of the Federal Rules of Evidence. Psychiatry Expert Witness Charles Edwin Saldanha graduated from Emory University with…
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Accounting Expert Was Partly Allowed to Opine on the Business Relationship
This case involves a contract dispute between the Douglas and Amy Mottram and Robert Radke. Prior to 2018, the Mottrams entered into four joint ventures with Radke, in which Radke would buy land in California, on which the Mottrams would construct homes to be resold for mutual profit. Beginning in 2018, the Mottrams and Radke…
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Statistics Expert Allowed to Opine on Over-Detention
Plaintiffs Alanna Dunn, Reginald Haymon, Adam Day, Eric Zeider, Cameron Leonard, and Jason Wilson filed this class action alleging that the deliberate indifference of Cuyahoga County and the Cuyahoga County Sheriff’s Department caused them to be over-detained in the Cuyahoga County Jail after the legal basis for their detention ceased to exist. Plaintiffs retained Lacey…
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Pharmacology Expert Allowed to Opine on the Clinical Trial
Alzamend Neuro, Inc is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing treatments for Alzheimer’s disease and other neurodegenerative diseases. To advance the development of a new treatment called ALZN002, Alzamend sought to conduct a phase I/IIA clinical trial to evaluate its safety, tolerability, and preliminary efficacy. Biorasi, LLC is a contract research organization or clinical…
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Political Science Expert Allowed to Opine on Election Ballot Secrecy
This case concerns Plaintiff Alison Kareem’s facial and/or as applied constitutional challenge to “ballot selfie” laws, a categorization of long-standing prohibitions on displaying election ballots. With fingertip access to smartphone cameras, voters can take pictures of their completed ballots and immediately post them on social media sites. This action and the statutes come under review.…
