Episode 015: Confessions of a Business Appraiser: A Conversation with Chris Mercer
The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit concluded that a district court did not abuse its discretion in striking expert testimony where the testimony did not rely on an agreed and court-adopted claim construction....more
What is the role of the court where expert evidence is “uncontroverted”, but appears not to prove the claimant’s case to the requisite standard? The Court of Appeal had to contend with that issue recently in Griffiths v TUI,...more
The old saying goes “if you give them an inch, they’ll take a mile”, but the Court of Appeal has reaffirmed that an independent expert appointed by parties to make a binding determination in relation to their dispute is not...more
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit affirmed a grant of summary judgment on July 19, 2018, in favor of defendants in a nearly decade-old case alleging an unlawful conspiracy in the single-copy magazine industry....more
The Fifth Circuit recently denied en banc reconsideration of Passmore v. Baylor Health Care System, 823 F.3d 292 (5th Cir. 2016). In the Passmore opinion, the court held that Texas’ requirement regarding expert reports in...more