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Psychiatrist To Testify in NXIVM “Cult” Trial

The prosecution in the case against NXIVM leader Keith Raniere has filed notice that it plans to call psychiatrist Dr. Michael Welner as an expert witness at trial to help establish that NXIVM is similar to a cult. NXIVM NXIVM is a multi-level marketing company based in Albany, New York, that offers personal development seminars. […]

Expert’s Review of Summary Judgment Submission Does Not Justify Disregarding Expert’s Opinion

A Postal Service employee needed, and was given, a parking spot that allowed him to load and unload his wheelchair from his van. Remarkably, the Postal Service took away that spot and failed to replace it with one that was suitable for a wheelchair. The Rehabilitation Act is a federal law that protects federal employees […]

Expert Has Performed Autopsy on Jeffrey Epstein

New York City’s chief medical officer has performed an autopsy on Jeffrey Epstein, but the results were inconclusive. Jeffrey Epstein’s Apparent Suicide On Saturday, August 10, the U.S. Federal Bureau of Prisons announced that Jeffrey Epstein was found unresponsive in his cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan. The agency called Epstein’s death an […]

Standard of Care Expert Opinions Held Sufficient to Defeat Summary Judgment

Doctors commit malpractice when they breach the standard they should follow when caring for a patient. The applicable standard of care is a matter of expert opinion. Reversing a summary judgment in favor of a doctor, the Georgia Court of Appeals recently emphasized that it is the job of a jury, not the trial judge, […]

Court Excludes Expert Testimony Because Witness Has a Contingent Financial Interest in Litigation Outcome

Election Experts Testify in Virginia Voter ID Case

Whether experts should be allowed to testify when they have a financial stake in the outcome of litigation is a question that divides courts. In an unusual case, a judge in the Western District of Virginia excluded the expert testimony of a witness who sold a litigation interest in a claim brought by his company. […]

Expert Witness List Released in Texas Police Murder Trial

The expert witness list has been publicly released in the murder trial of a former Dallas Police Officer who shot and killed a man in his own apartment after mistaking him for an intruder. The Killing On September 16, 2018, Amber Guyger, 30, was off-duty but in her police uniform when she shot and killed […]

Experts Differ in State Court Challenge to NC Redistricting

Expert witnesses have finished tangling, at least for the moment, in the North Carolina redistricting dispute. After a narrow majority of the Supreme Court refused to impose constitutional barriers to partisan redistricting, federal challenges to political gerrymandering in North Carolina became impossible to pursue. Challengers are now basing their claims on the state constitution, a […]

JNJ Expert Testifies No Link Between Talc and Ovarian Cancer

A New Jersey federal court judge will determine the fate of almost 12,000 lawsuits that claim that Johnson & Johnson’s talc-containing baby powder causes women to develop ovarian cancer and mesothelioma. The Lawsuits Plaintiffs from all around the United States have filed lawsuits against Johnson & Johnson, alleging that the talc that is contained in […]

Toxicity Experts Debate the Risk of Glyphosate Found in Children’s Cereal

The Environmental Working Group, a non-profit organization dedicated to protecting human health and the environment, recently published the results of a study that revealed that the herbicide Roundup was detected in all 21 of the oat-based cereals and snack products that it tested. All but four of these products contained levels of glyphosate that are […]

Experts Overstating Forensic Results A Leading Cause of Wrongful Convictions

The National Registry of Exonerations recently released its report on Exonerations in 2018. Importantly, it found that official misconduct and misleading forensic evidence were the leading causes of wrongful convictions. 2018 Statistics on Wrongful Convictions There were 151 exonerations that occurred in the United States in 2018. The exonerations were for the following crimes: 66 […]