Mealey's (March 25, 2021, 2:33 PM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — A federal judge in California rejected on March 19 the “transparent gamesmanship” in an attempt at excluding an expert report rendered untimely by mutual error, saying that a widow could rely on it only to the extent it is offered as rebuttal causation testimony. In a March 23 opinion, the judge excluded a pulmonologist’s testimony on the state of the art and her opinion about whether asbestos exposure from steam traps caused a man’s death....