Supreme Court Affirms 'Gatekeeper' Duty of Trial Courts for Expert Evidence

Business Valuation UpdateVol. 5 No. 5
Legal and Court Case Update
May 1999

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3011 Tires and Inner Tubes
326211 Tire Manufacturing (except Retreading)
evidence
expert testimony
Kumho Tire Co. v. Carmichael
119 S. Ct. 1167,1999 U.S. LEXIS 2189
March 23, 1999
US
Federal Court
Supreme Court
Dennis Carlson, Jr (for plaintiff)
Breyer

Summary

In this product liability case, the trial court ruled that the expert testimony of the plaintiffs' tire failure analysis expert was inadmissible because it was not reliable.

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Kumho Tire Co. v. Carmichael

Full Text of Court Cases
March 23, 1999

At issue is the admittance of expert testimony.

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