In The Michigan Law Blog, Michael J. Hamblin writes: Required Qualifications for Expert Witnesses in Michigan Business Litigation Cases In many business litigation cases, winning depends on the testimony of an expert witness who supports a party’s theory of the case or damage calculations. When testifying, the expert gives his…
In March the Arizona Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of a 2005 law establishing minimum qualifications for medical liability expert witnesses who testify in. The court rejected arguments from the state trial bar that it was up to the courts — not lawmakers — to set rules governing expert witness…
A federal prosecutor dropped key toxicology expert witness Christopher Weis from the case against W.R. Grace & Co. saying the move would significantly curtail the government’s case after U.S. District Judge Donald Molloy had told the parties to “move the case along.” Weis, a toxicologist for the U.S. Environmental Protection…
Marketing expert witness Glen Balzer is a widely published author on distributor and representative relationships and agreements, as well as sales organizations and commissions. Here he writes on traits of successful representative agreements. Suppliers and manufacturers’ representatives often seek to gain advantage over their partners by incorporating a bias into…
In Security Solutions for Strip Shopping Centers, author and security expert witness Karim H. Vellani discusses risks and solutions for strip shopping center security: Conclusion A crime analysis case study was recently completed by the author’s firm and is pending publication in the American Society for Industrial Security’s (A.S.I.S.) Security…
The topic for the April 20th meeting of the Forensic Expert Witness Association (FEWA) is “The NAS Report on Forensic Science and Legal Challenges to Scientific Testimony.” The presenter is attorney and UCI Professor William C. Thompson, PhD. In February, the National Academies of Science issued their 254 page report,…
In Security Solutions for Strip Shopping Centers, author and security expert witness Karim H. Vellani discusses risks and solutions for strip shopping center security: Temporal analysis is the third query. This analysis tells us when the risks are high and helps us efficiently allocate our security resources when threats are…
The parent company of one of the most popular poker sites on the Internet said yesterday it has agreed to pay the U.S. government $105 million to settle charges that it illegally offered gambling to players in the U.S. PartyGaming Plc said it would pay the money over three years…
In Security Solutions for Strip Shopping Centers, author and security expert witness Karim H. Vellani discusses risks and solutions for strip shopping center security: Analyzing the Information Once we have our database of actual crimes, we can analyze the specific risk at each site. There are a number of queries…
U.S. District Court Judge James Mahan recently postponed the criminal trial of officials who run the Truckee Carson Irrigation District until February 2010 at the request of defense lawyers who said they need more time to prepare for such an “unusual and complex case.” The officials are accused of defrauding…