Frank Andrews v. Metro North Commuter Railroad Co., Penn Central Corporation, Consolidated Rail Corporation, National Railroad Passenger Corp.

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• concluding that district court’s failure to allow jurors to consider original complaint, which conflicted with the amended complaint, was a substantial abuse of discretion
• stating that expert testimony is inadmissible when it addresses “lay matters which [the trier of fact] is capable of understanding and deciding without the expert's help”
• noting that an expert's failure to opine that a defendant’s actions were “reckless” accords with the prohibition on testimony concerning legal conclusions
• noting that an expert's failure to opine that a defendant's actions were \reckless\ accords with the prohibition on testimony concerning legal conclusions
• district court’s failure to permit jurors to examine original complaint, where amended complaint was in contradiction, was substantial abuse of discretion
• “The amendment of a pleading does not make it any the less an admission of the party.”

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