Legal Opinion
Rogers v. Raymark Industries, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided January 9, 1991No. 89-15066PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RYMER, Circuit Judge:
This is an asbestos case. The appeal raises questions about the extent of a trial judge’s discretion to exclude expert and percipient witness opinion testimony under Fed.R.Evid. 403 and to permit use of third-party x-rays for demonstrative purposes even though they had not been identified in the pre-trial order.
Hester Rogers (“plaintiff”), widow of Clinton Rogers (“Rogers”), sued Fibre-board Corporation and Keene Corporation, two asbestos manufacturers (“defendants”), following her husband’s death from lung cancer. Plaintiff claimed that Rogers’s fatal lung cancer could…
2Cases cited13 opinions
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