Ciomber v. Cooperative Plus, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “Rule 26(a)(2) does not allow parties to cure deficient expert reports by supplementing them with later deposition testimony” because doing so would “completely undermin[e]” the purpose of expert reports
• stating that “Rule 26(a)(2) mandates a complete and detailed report of the expert witness’s opinions, conclusions, and the basis and reasons for them”
• explaining that \[a]llowing parties to cure a deficient report with later depositions would further undermine a primary goal of Rule 26(a)(2)\
• holding at summary judgment that an expert report’s violation of Rule 26(a)(2)(B) was not “harmless”
• concluding a deficient expert report was not harmless because the deficiencies forced the other party to depose the expert “with little or no understanding as to what he would testify”
• concluding a deficient expert report was not harmless because the deficiencies forced the other party to depose the expert “with little or no understanding as to what he would testify [to]”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).