Legal Opinion

Aiken v. Rimkus Consulting Group Inc.

Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

Decided May 26, 2009No. 08-60154UnpublishedCited by 12 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

PER CURIAM: *

David W. Aiken, Jr. and Marilyn M. Aiken (jointly “Aikens”) claim Rimkus Consulting Group, Inc. (“Rimkus”) and James W. Jordan (“Jordan”) (jointly “Ap-pellees”), engineers hired by an insurer to evaluate post-Katrina damage to the Ai-kens’ house, are liable for falsifying evidence about the cause of damage to their property. The district court granted the Appellees’ motion for Judgment as a Matter of Law (“JMOL”), pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure (“Rule”) 50(a), at the conclusion of the Aikens’ presentation of evidence. The district court held that there was…

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