One Expert’s Bad Data Undermine Another’s Damages Calculation

Business Valuation UpdateVol. 19 No. 8
Legal and Court Case Update
August 2013
8699 Membership Organizations, NEC
813410 Civic and Social Organizations
economic damages & lost profits
damages, lost profits, daubert, admissibility

MyGallons LLC v. U.S. Bankcorp
2013 U.S. App. LEXIS 11004
May 31, 2013
US
Federal Court
4th Circuit
United States Court of Appeals
Paul Seitz (plaintiff); unknown (defendants)
Niemeyer

Summary

Fourth Circuit strikes down as “unsupportable” a $4 million lost profits award in a defamation suit; plaintiff’s first expert, a marketing professor, presented inadmissible growth projections that “ignore business realities”; as they formed the basis for ...

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MyGallons LLC v. U.S. Bankcorp

Fourth Circuit strikes down as “unsupportable” a $4 million lost profits award in a defamation suit; plaintiff’s first expert, a marketing professor, presented inadmissible growth projections that “ignore business realities”; as they formed the basis for ...