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Supreme Court of South Carolina· 9/13/2010

Watson v. Ford Motor Co.

Citations

  • 699 S.E.2d 169
  • 389 S.C. 434
  • 2010 S.C. LEXIS 319

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • stating that in a jury trial, it is the jury's task to weigh the evidence presented and determine whether the plaintiff has adequately proven his claim
  • stating the trial court, as the gatekeeper, must examine the substance of the testimony to determine if it is reliable
  • finding that an electrical engineer with no experience in the automobile industry who employed an unreliable theory that was uniformly rejected in the scientific community was not qualified to testify about an alleged design defect in a Ford automobile
  • finding certain experts should not have been qualified where they lacked sufficient knowledge about the area in which they were called to testify
  • finding certain experts should not have been qualified where they lacked sufficient knowledge about the area in which they were called to testify
  • explaining that a trial court not only has to find that a proffered expert has the knowledge, skill, experience, training, or education in the field of expertise, the trial court must also determine that the substance of the expert's testimony is reliable

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Judges: Toal, Waller, Beatty, Kittredge, Pleicones

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