Richman v. Sheahan

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

COLE, United States Magistrate Judge.

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INTRODUCTION

Judge Posner has lamented that all too often, experts are “ ‘the mere paid advocates or partisans of those who employ and pay them, as much so as the attorneys who conduct the suit. There is hardly anything, not palpably absurd on its face that cannot now be proved by some so-called experts.’ ” Olympia Equipment Leasing Co. v. Western Union Telegraph Co., 797 F.2d 370, 382 (7th Cir.1986). 1 Thus, courts are not allowed to “take ... on faith” whatever a paid expert claims, Minasian, 109 F.3d at 1216, even if the…