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: Legal Ethics ForumThoughtful new decision on conflicts of interests and experts
From the Southern District of West Virginia comes Rhodes v. DuPont, __ F.Supp.2d __ (S.D. W.Va. 2008), a thoughtful decision addressing conflicts of interest and experts. I've got an article about this issue on ssrn, here, and found this case quite a good read and summary of the competing issues. You also often don't get to read authority from 1900 (Learned Hand, no less) quoted in a case with chemicals that no one can pronounce!
Full post as published by Legal Ethics Forum on August 22, 2008 (boomark / email).
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