Clark v. Raty

LANSING, Judge.

This appeal challenges the decision of the district court excluding from trial expert testimony of one of the plaintiffs treating physicians because the opinions and the facts underlying those opinions had not been disclosed in discovery responses. We hold that this discovery sanction was reasonable in the circumstances presented here, and therefore affirm.

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BACKGROUND

In July 1997, defendant Nicole Raty drove an automobile belonging to her father, Dallas Raty, through a stop sign and struck Clark’s vehicle. The accident caused Clark to suffer neck and back pain, for which he…