LANDLORD/TENANT: Lease provisions that allow placing unpaid balance or damages with collection agency and charging $50 fee for any violation of lease illegal under RLTA. . . no evidence that landlord included lease terms knowing they were illegal. . . claims subject to 8-year statute for actions founded on instrument but would also be timely under 2-year statute for liability created by statute. . . Halligan. [Read more…]
Experts, collapsed ladder
EXPERTS: Plaintiffs’ experts as to manufacturing & design defects and duties of importers/wholesalers qualified under Rule 702 and Daubert in collapsed ladder case, motion to exclude for failure to satisfy Rule 26 denied… Lovell. [Read more…]
Discovery, late-disclosed expert’s report
DISCOVERY: Late-disclosed metallurgical expert’s report in collapsed ladder case stricken, expert excluded as witness, [Read more…]