Smith & Wollensky Restaurant Group, Inc. v. Passow

How courts have described this case

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• excluding expert testimony on the subject of fire damage on the grounds that “the mere fact that a fire causes increasing damage the longer it burns is an obvious statement, and a lay person is entirely capable of reaching this conclusion without the help of an expert”
• “When presented with an expert opinion that is not sufficiently grounded in reliable facts, ‘[a] court may conclude that there is simply too great an analytical gap between the data and the opinion proffered.’”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).