Panel Replaces Judge Over Exclusion Of Expert Due To Nondisclosure Of Work

Mealey's (July 31, 2018, 1:30 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — A federal judge used the wrong method when calculating the value of wind farm assets to determine federal grant eligibility and erred in barring a valuation expert from testifying for failure to disclose five academic papers he wrote “discussing various aspects of socialist thought,” a Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel held July 27 (Alta Wind I Owner Lessor C, et al. v. United States, Nos. 17-1410, 17-1411, 17-1412, 17-1415, 17-1417, 17-1422, 17-1423, 17-1424, Fed. Cir., 2018 U.S. App. LEXIS 20931)....