Expert Can Offer Limited Testimony On Impacts Of Sediment Runoff, Judge Says

Mealey's (May 11, 2018, 1:39 PM EDT) -- GULFPORT, Miss. — A coastal services professor designated as an expert for an environmental group claiming that a contractor’s road construction project is violating the Clean Water Act by disposing of excessive amounts of sediment in the Biloxi Back Bay can offer limited testimony regarding how the sediment flows from the project to the waterway, a federal judge in Mississippi ruled May 9, finding that the some of his opinions were based on inadequate data (Gulf Restoration Network v. Oscar Renda Contracting Inc., No. 17CV130-LG-RHW, S.D. Miss., 2018 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 77907)....