California Appeals Court Orders Retrial For Excluding Testimony On Driver’s Drug Use

Mealey's (November 27, 2018, 9:23 AM EST) -- SAN FRANCISCO — A lower court committed prejudicial error when it excluded expert testimony on a driver’s methamphetamine use in a trial over injuries to two road crew workers who were hit by a car, an appeals court concluded Oct. 23.  It remanded for a retrial on the driver’s comparative negligence but kept the $56.5 million and $2.7 million awards to the workers intact (Shannon Moore, et al. v. State of California Department of Transportation, No. A151059, Calif. App., 1st Dist., Div. 1, 2018 Cal. App. Unpub. LEXIS 7226)....

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