Lawyer’s Expert Opinions Stricken In Suit Over Removed Confederate Statue

Mealey's (October 22, 2018, 11:54 AM EDT) -- SAN ANTONIO — Opinions from an attorney acting as an expert witness for San Antonio in a suit filed by a United Daughters of the Confederacy chapter over the removal of a Confederate soldier statute from a city park are merely legal conclusions that invade the province of the court, a Texas federal magistrate judge ruled Oct. 18 in striking the proposed testimony (Albert Sidney Johnston Chapter No. 2060, United Daughters of the Confederacy, et al. v. Ron Nirenberg, et al., No. 5:17-cv-1072, W.D. Texas, 2018 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 179561)....