Eleanor M. Stagl v. Delta Air Lines, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that it was error for the trial court to exclude testimony concerning defects in baggage claim design from a witness who lacked specific expertise in airport terminal design or baggage claim systems, but who was an expert on human-machine interaction
• reversing district court’s exclusion of expert witness for lack of direct experience, in the design of airport baggage retrieval system as unreasonably narrowing the pool of available experts for plaintiff
• reversing lower court decision to preclude expert testimony on the ground that he was unqualified \because his expertise was insufficiently tailored to the facts of this case\ and noting that \it is error to exclude\ experts with \more general qualifications\
• “courts may proper ly conclude that witnesses are insufficiently qualified despite the relevance of their testimony because their expertise is too general or too deficient”
• expert knowledge needed to qualify under Rule 702 should be information “most likely beyond the knowledge of an average juror.”
• “[A] district court: may properly conclude that witnesses are insufficiently qualified ... because their expertise is too general or too deficient. ”

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