Holding that "the district court acted well within its discretion when it imposed the sanction of excluding the testimony of the expert witness" because the party had failed to comply with the court's scheduling order
Holding that a district court could not consider, for Rule 702 analysis of reliability of an expert's methods, a challenge to the expert's credibility based on a past embezzlement charge
Holding that for an expert to be struck he must have "neither satisfactory knowledge, skill, experience, training nor education on the issue for which the opinion is proferred"
108 F. Supp. 2d 743 (E.D. Mich. 2000) Cited 29 times
Finding self-employed “safety consultant” with no graduate degrees, no published articles on forklifts, no leadership position in safety organization, who never designed a product related to forklifts, and had only worked as a forklift operator in a sit down model, not qualified to render opinion