Expert testimony in injury lawsuits
Andrews v. Lands' End
In brief
- Where it stands
- Dismissed
Petition denied.
- What it’s about
- Stephanie Andrews and other plaintiffs ask the Supreme Court to review their case against Lands’ End, arguing the district judge excluded an expert who relied on plaintiffs’ sworn medical histories, ignored treating doctors’ opinions, and ended claims by 174 plaintiffs without a trial.
- Who it affects
- Andrews and the other plaintiffs did not get Supreme Court review; the Court did not decide whether their claims should have gone to a jury.
Summary: written with AI from the case record.
What it's about
They say the Seventh Circuit failed to address their request for the lower court to reconsider those opinions.
The plaintiffs say the district judge excluded an expert who relied on their sworn medical histories and ended 174 plaintiffs’ claims without a trial.
Andrews and the other plaintiffs challenged how the district judge handled expert and treating-doctor evidence in their claims against Lands’ End.
Question presented
1. When a district judge is annoyed by the number of plaintiffs, laments he is unable to send them to other districts, and, as Daubert gatekeeper, strikes an expert for relying on plaintiffs’ sworn medical history answers because the judge considers the answers unworthy of belief, is the judge subject to the inference that he abused his discretion? 2. As to 174 of the plaintiffs before him, does a district judge deny them jury trial and due process rights by ignoring expert treating physicians’ opinions showing that material facts on causation are genuinely disputed? 3. Did the Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit err by failing to address petitioners’ arguments seeking remand to the district court for consideration of pending issues related to the multiple treating physicians’ causation opinions as expressed in the petitioners’ Rule 26(a)(2)(C) disclosures?
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