Expert Survives Disclosure Rule Challenges, But Magistrate Limits Testimony

(July 8, 2021, 9:16 AM EDT) -- SAN JOSE, Calif. — A California magistrate federal judge on June 21 limited testimony from an expert retained by a school district to rebut a parents’ expert who opines that their child suffers from posttraumatic stress disorder as a result of being abused by one of his teachers, finding that challenges to exclude based on failure to comply with disclosure rules are unsuccessful but that the expert cannot base her testimony on consultations with other experts....