9th Circuit Again Finds Fault In Expert Witness Rulings In Water Contamination Row

Mealey's (August 8, 2017, 1:52 PM EDT) -- PASADENA, Calif. — A federal trial court abused its discretion twice when making two expert witness decisions against a California city, and the errors were prejudicial to the city in its claims that its groundwater was polluted by a chemical in a company’s fertilizer products, the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals held Aug. 7 in vacating the trial court’s judgment and remanding for a new trial (City of Pomona v. SQM North America Corporation, No. 15-56062, 9th Cir., 2017 U.S. App. LEXIS 14491)....