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Motion to Exclude Expert – Daubert

By: Derek Hawkins//December 19, 2017//

Motion to Exclude Expert – Daubert

By: Derek Hawkins//December 19, 2017//

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7th Circuit Court of Appeals

Case Name: S.V. Gopalratinam, et al. v. Hewlett-Packard Company, et al.

Case No.: 17-1810

Officials: BAUER, FLAUM, and ROVNER, Circuit Judges.

Focus: Motion to Exclude Expert – Daubert

Plaintiffs’ son tragically perished in a fire at plaintiffs’ home in June 2010. Believing that the fire was caused by a defective lithium ion battery cell from their son’s laptop, plaintiffs filed a products liability suit against separate manufacturers of the laptop, battery pack, and individual battery cells. Plaintiffs supported their causation theory solely through testimony from two expert witnesses, whom defendants later moved to exclude under Federal Rule of Evidence 702 and Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc., 509 U.S. 579 (1993). The district court granted defendants’ motions to exclude, and therefore entered summary judgment in their favor. Plaintiffs now appeal the district court’s ruling. We affirm.

Affirmed

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Attorney Derek A. Hawkins is the managing partner at Hawkins Law Offices LLC, where he heads up the firm’s startup law practice. He specializes in business formation, corporate governance, intellectual property protection, private equity and venture capital funding and mergers & acquisitions. Check out the website at www.hawkins-lawoffices.com or contact them at 262-737-8825.

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