With No Error On Expert Ruling, Summary Judgment Appropriate, 11th Circuit Holds

(May 17, 2018, 12:20 PM EDT) -- ATLANTA — A Florida federal court did not abuse its discretion in excluding an expert’s opinion that pollution from a fertilizer factory caused or worsened a woman’s pulmonary diseases, and then awarding the factory judgment for lack of expert causation evidence, because the court correctly found that the expert’s “methodology was undermined by multiple defects,” the 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals said May 14 (Rhonda Williams v. Mosaic Fertilizer, LLC, No. 17-10894, 11th Cir., 2018 U.S. App. LEXIS 12478)....