Following a pre-trial conference, a Texas judge rejected on Daubert grounds proposed expert testimony on a reasonable royalty, since that royalty would have been excessive for the defendant. (vlfconsulting.com)
The New York Court of Appeals, which is the highest state appellate court in New York, recently released a decision affirming two lower court decisions to exclude a plaintiff's proposed expert witnesses in a personal injury case filed on behalf of a child who was born with serious birth defects and disabilities alleged to have resulted from his mother inhaling gasoline fumes while she was pregnant with him. (indianainjuryblog.com)
As I have begun to chronicle in this ongoing «Trust Me, I'm an Expert» series of posts, courts have not hesitated to deem people experts in fields such as «smell» and «lap dancing» and whether a grown woman can be smothered to death by a Labrador Retriever On the other hand, courts have refused to accept proposed experts in the field of «shit,» and «pimping.» (legalblogwatch.typepad.com)