· 8/6/1986
In Re Air Crash Disaster at New Orleans, Louisiana on July 9, 1982. Pearl Crosby Eymard v. Pan American World Airways
Citations
- 795 F.2d 1230
- 1986 U.S. App. LEXIS 27894
How courts have described this case
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- noting that “trial courts must be wary lest the expert become nothing more than an advocate of policy before the jury.”
- noting that “the trial judge ought to insist that a proffered expert bring to the jury more than the lawyers can offer in argument”
- stating that “experts whose opinions are available to the highest bidder have no place testifying in a court of law, before a jury, and with the imprimatur of the trial judge’s deci sion that he is an ‘expert’ ”
- “Stated more directly, the trial judge ought to insist that a proffered expert bring to the jury more than the lawyers can offer in argument.”
- “[T]he trial judge ought to insist that a proffered expert bring to the jury more than the lawyers can offer in argument.”
- “Stated more directly, the trial judge ought to insist that a proffered expert bring to the jury more than the lawyers can offer in argument.”
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Judges: Higginbotham, Wisdom, Rubin, Higgin-Botham
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