Where two pharmaceutical companies accused of violating antitrust laws sought discovery from new plaintiffs who recently joined the suit, the magistrate judge limited the requests to those topics that were relevant in the long-running suit and proportionate to the companies’ ...

Tagged with: Evidence Judge Rebecca Beach Smith U.S. District Court - Eastern District

The Eastern District of Virginia has limited the scope of expert testimony in advance of a trial between two companies litigating whether commercial lease conditions relating to the construction and operation of a fitness club were breached. U.S. District Judge ...

Tagged with: Evidence Judge Rossie D. Alston Jr. U.S. District Court - Eastern District

Although a company sued for allegedly breaching an agreement sell a 26-acre parcel of land raised numerous objections to discovery requests propounded by the plaintiffs, including that they were overbroad, irrelevant, vague and unclear, the court largely required it to ...

Tagged with: Evidence Judge Joel Hoppe U.S. District Court - Western District

Where a company sued for allegedly breaching an agreement sell a 26-acre parcel of land moved to quash subpoenas sent to non-parties, its motion was largely denied. The subpoenas were sent for a good reason, were non-cumulative and sought relevant ...

Tagged with: Evidence Judge Joel Hoppe U.S. District Court - Western District

Where companies who are litigating whether commercial lease conditions relating to the construction and operation of a fitness club were breached, experts will be precluded from providing their subjective interpretations of the lease terms. Those opinions touch directly on interpreting ...

Tagged with: Evidence Judge Rossie D. Alston Jr. U.S. District Court - Eastern District

Where an officer sued for racial profiling moved to preclude a statistician from testifying that the likelihood of his higher rate of citations of Black drivers versus lower rates by other officers, by chance, is about 1 in 100,000, his ...

Tagged with: Evidence Judge Norman K. Moon U.S. District Court - Western District

Where the plaintiff in a wrongful death case offered a former police chief/crime-scene investigator to testify that the decedent did not die from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, but he lacked knowledge, training or experience in medical science or forensic pathology, ...

Tagged with: Evidence Judge Michael F. Urbanski U.S. District Court - Western District

The Court of Appeals of Virginia upheld a decision by a circuit court to grant a motion to suppress evidence filed by a man searched by police who claimed he could not validly consent to the search. The court ruled ...

Tagged with: Evidence Judge Junius P. Fulton III Search and seizure Virginia Court of Appeals

Where land was condemned for an easement required for construction of a natural gas pipeline, any evidence or statements by landowners or counsel bearing on the land’s “value to me,” or that they are being forced to sell, cannot afford ...

Tagged with: Evidence Judge Elizabeth K. Dillon U.S. District Court - Western District

Where a pharmaceutical company sought discovery from a competitor for use in their foreign patent litigation, its request under 28 U.S.C § 1782 was denied. The competitor company was not “found” in the district where the application was filed because ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Evidence Judge Paul V. Niemeyer