Clifford v. Crop Production Services, Inc.

ADELMAN, District Judge.

In this negligence case involving Illinois substantive law, the district court granted the’s motion for summary judgment after excluding the plaintiffs expert witness and concluding that, without expert testimony, the plaintiffs claim failed as a matter of law. The plaintiff appeals both the exclusion of his expert witness and the district court’s grant of summary judgment. We affirm.

I

The plaintiff below and appellant here, John C. Clifford, III, farmed seed corn under a contract with Monsanto. In 2007, at Monsanto’s direction, Clifford planted male and female strains…