Robert Bevis v. City of Naperville

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• holding that a district court did not abuse its discretion in excluding an expert’s testimony when that expert “had not based his conclusion on the results of tests or calculations specific to” the plaintiff
• holding that a district court did not abuse its discretion in excluding an expert’s testimony when that expert “had not based his conclusion on the results of tests or calculations specific to” the plaintiff
• recognizing court should not have instructed jury on heeding presumption when defendant presented evidence rebutting the presumption
• assuming that a study was reasonably relied upon by experts in the engineering field because the defendants did not argue otherwise
• declining to apply amended rules of evidence on appeal when prior rules had been in effect during trial
• assuming the data was of the type experts would rely on where the opponent of the evidence did not argue oth- erwise

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