Piche v. Nugent
District Court, D. Maine
1Opinion of the Court
AMENDED 1 MEMORANDUM OF DECISION 2 ON PLAINTIFF’S MOTION FOR PARTIAL SUMMARY JUDGMENT AND MOTION TO EXCLUDE EXPERT TESTIMONY
KRAVCHUK, United States Magistrate Judge.
With the pending motions Daniel Piché seeks to preclude the defendants from using the “helmet defense” to obtain a comparative negligence instruction or from introducing comparative negligence expert testimony at trial that seeks to assign causative fault to Piché and his deceased wife, Lyne Laprise, for not wearing helmets while riding on Piché’s motorcycle. It is undisputed that the accident in question arose solely as a…
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