Experts can be the bane of a trial lawyer’s existence, but they can also be saviors.

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2011AP2809 Satorius v. Proassurance Wisconsin Insurance Company, et al.

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2011AP2386 In re the commitment of Quinton Keith Washington

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2011AP2959 County of Marathon v. DeBuhr

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2012AP1562, 2012AP1563 In re the termination of parental rights to William V., et al.

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2011AP1258 Farmer, et al. v. Kotarski, et al.

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2011AP1559-CR State v. Hancock

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2011AP522 Armagost, et al. v. Gundersen Clinic Ltd., et al.

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2011AP228, 2011AP1110 Kenneth F. Sullivan Co. v. McManamy, et al.

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Juries routinely dismiss expert testimony due to credibility problems, incomprehensibility, or simply because it is cancelled out by another expert’s testimony.

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2010AP2615 Trudeau, et al. v. Physicians Insurance Company of Wisconsin Inc., et al.

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In the year since the U.S. Supreme Court made it tougher for large groups of plaintiffs to prove that they should proceed in a class action, courts have been taking a harder look at a key type of evidence plaintiffs use to make that case: expert witness testimony.

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10-3262 Tribble v. Evangelides

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The first two months of 2011 brought Wisconsin a new Legislature, a new governor and a wave of tort reform.

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2009AP25-CR State v. Rhodes

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10-1194 Bielskis v. Louisville Ladder, Inc.

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2010AP1973-CR State v. Gasper

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Motor Vehicles OWI; evidence; expert testimony

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In commercial litigation, many cases require some kind of expert.

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Evidence Other acts; expert testimony Joseph Evans appeals from a judgment of conviction for the first-degree intentional homicide of his estranged wife and criminal damage to property.  Evans challenges the admissibility of other acts evidence and expert testimony.  We reject ...

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There has been much attention paid recently, including in these pages, to a recent bill that purportedly heightens the admissibility standards for expert testimony.

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Evidence Expert testimony It was not an abuse of discretion to permit a trauma surgeon to testify about the nature and severities of a plaintiff’s injuries. “Banister argues, citing Deimer v. Cincinnati Sub- Zero Products, Inc., 58 F.3d 341, 345 ...

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Criminal Procedure Ineffective assistance; expert testimony Charles R. Black appeals from a judgment of conviction for two counts of second-degree sexual assault of a mentally ill victim, contrary to Wis. Stat. § 940.225(2)(c) (2007-08), and from the July 30, 2009 ...

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Employment FELA; causation; expert testimony The district court properly excluded the testimony of an ergonomist and treating physicians to prove that a railroad employee’s cumulative trauma disorders were caused by the railroad’s negligence. “[T]he ergonomist could testify as an expert ...

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Property Misrepresentation; expert testimony Dennis and Laurie Gaszak appeal from a judgment that they failed to disclose basement cracks and a bulging wall when Patrick and Margaret Keller purchased their home. The Gaszaks argue that because there was no expert ...

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Environmental Law Clean Air Act; plant modification permits; expert testimony The jury verdict regarding a plant’s emissions of sulphur dioxide related to modifications to coal-fired electric power plants made without obtaining permits must be reversed because the modifications did not ...

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