Legal Opinion
Kent A. Sommer and Andrea Sommer v. G. William Davis and Charles G. Norton
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided January 30, 2003No. 01-5761PublishedCited by 113 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
GILMAN, Circuit Judge.
Kent A. Sommer and his wife, Andrea Sommer, brought suit against two doctors, G. William Davis and Charles G. Norton, alleging that they had negligently performed surgery on Mr. Sommer. Because the district court concluded that the Som-mers had failed to introduce any competent evidence that either defendant had breached the requisite standard of care, it granted summary judgment in favor of the defendants. The Sommers appeal, arguing that the district court erred in determining that their expert witnesses were not competent to testify under Tennessee law. For the…
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