12 May Beazley v. Suzuki Motor Corporation

             This ruling concerns the admissibility of certain documents found in Exhibit 13 that the plaintiffs seek to rely on in this trial.  Exhibit 13 consists of six binders containing in excess of 400 individual documents. When the plaintiffs tendered Exhibit 13 as part of their case, by agreement of the parties it was admitted into evidence subject to the defendants’ right to challenge the admissibility of individual documents.  The defendants now submit that a number of the documents contained in Exhibit 13 are inadmissible and seek their removal from the Exhibit.BACKGROUND...

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09 Apr Beazley v. Suzuki Motor Corporation

             The plaintiffs apply at a pre-trial conference to exclude the report of David L. Wood and the portions of the report of Jeya Padmanapan that deal with the statistical relationship between seatbelt use and injuries in motor vehicle accidents. The defendants oppose the applications. They submit that the applications should be deferred to trial and only determined after the witnesses have testified at trial on a voir dire. Alternatively, the defendants submit the reports are, in any event, admissible. The trial is scheduled to commence on April 19, 2010, for 60 days.BACKGROUND...

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