Black-Owned Funeral Homes Cannot Use Expert For Bias Claims Against County

Mealey's (March 2, 2018, 11:18 AM EST) -- HATTIESBURG, Miss. — An expert witness for several funeral homes owned by blacks alleging that a Mississippi county discriminated against them when deciding where to send bodies from the coroner’s office deliberately used inaccurate, biased data to form his opinion on the county’s intent, rendering the opinion completely unreliable and inadmissible, a federal judge held Feb. 27 (Theodore Williams, et al. v. Gary Hargrove, et al., No. 1:16-cv-266, S.D. Miss., 2018 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 31054)....