Discovery disputes that linger without resolution can materially affect the outcome of the case. In a Fort Lauderdale wrongful death case against Tesla, a Judge recently struck a human factors expert witness from the plaintiff’s witness list because the opinions were not timely disclosed, The lawyer for the parents off the decedent claimed the late disclosures were created by Tesla’s failure to produce the requested vehicle information for years. The Judge indicated that a second expert witness for the plaintiff may also be precluded on similar grounds. Companies like Tesla pay their lawyers to drag these disputes out, hoping to create just this kind of prejudice.
“Going back to your question of when does it end,” Gdanski said to Judge Speiser, “that begs the question of when does it start? I tried to start this four, five years ago when we asked for this data.”
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