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Exclusion of HCLA expert based on locality rule affirmed.

Day on Torts

25, 2022), the patient underwent a hysterectomy at a hospital in Kingsport, Tennessee. After deposing Dr. Steege, defendants moved to exclude Dr. Steege on the basis that he was not competent to testify under Tenn. Merely being licensed in Tennessee or a bordering state is not enough if the expert cannot also meet the locality rule.

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Supreme Court Kicks Off Term With Oral Arguments in Five Cases

Constitutional Law Reporter

Abu Zubaydah is seeking to depose two CIA contractors who allegedly supervised his “enhanced interrogation” at secret CIA dark sites in Poland. Tennessee: The case involves an interstate water dispute between the states of Mississippi and Tennessee. detention facility in the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba. Mississippi v.

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Expert affidavit created issues of fact to withstand summary judgment in HCLA case

Day on Torts

Defendant deposed Dr. Gunnerson as an adverse expert witness, then filed a motion for summary judgment, asserting that there was “no causal connection between any alleged negligence by [defendant] and any injury, including death, to [the patient].” The patient was finally intubated, but she died approximately six hours later.