Western Industrial Co. v. Dodge

How courts have described this case

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• holding that an expert’s declaration attached to an opposition to a Daubert motion did not violate discovery rules because it did not “contain new or contradictory opinions but offer[red] elaboration of his initial opinions and rebut[ted] the opinions in the defense experts’ reports”
• finding that a rebuttal report is permissible “if it contains merely an elaboration of and [is] consistent with an opinion/issue previously addressed in the expert report”
• refusing to strike expert’s declaration that offered merely a clarification of his opinions
• outlining scope of work product doctrine in context of expert witnesses
• “A plain reading of Rule 26(a)(2)(B) does not require that an expert personally draft his report, but instead provides that the expert report must be ‘prepared and signed by the witness.’”

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