Estrada v. Royalty Carpet Mills, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• adequacy of response depends on whether opposing party received fair notice of theory of liability to which expert was expected to testify
• “Mutual knowledge of all the relevant facts gathered by both parties is essential to proper litigation.” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• trial court improperly allowed defendant car manufacturer to present expert testimony concerning prior fractures within steering assembly where defendant had failed to disclose this theory in discovery
• trial court improperly allowed defendant car manufacturer to present expert testimony concerning prior fractures within steering assembly where defendant had failed to disclose this theory in discovery
• “[F]or matters properly not evidential until the rebuttal, the proponent has a right to put them in at that time .... Matters of true rebuttal could not have been put in before ....”
• construing federal rule in effect at that time

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).