Maclloyd v. United States

How courts have described this case

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• holding that district court abused its discretion by excluding expert witness testimony where proffered expert was a specialist in pediatrics and neonatal and perinatal medicine, and the expert was to testify as to a cesarean section performed by an obstetrician-gynecologist
• finding that the district court abused its discretion by refusing to allow an expert to testify in a medical malpractice case where, “without [the expertj’s testimony on causation and the standard of care, the plaintiffs were unable to present evidence on two elements of their case”
• “[T]he Rules of Evidence require that the judge admit expert testimony relevant to the disposition of the case when it will assist the trier of fact in understanding a fact in issue and rests on a reliable foundation.”
• listing elements of medical malpractice under Puerto Rico law

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).