Malburg v. Grate et al
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OPINION AND ORDER denying as moot 31 Motion in Limine to Exclude Portions of the Testimony of Defendants Expert William Field; denying 39 Motion in Limine to Exclude any Theory of Causation by Plaintiff Based on Speculation Concerning Decedent s Conduct ; granting 40 Motion in Limine to Exclude Evidence of Subsequent Remedial Measures; denying 55 Motion in Limine to Preclude Any Reference to Decedent Being In Harms Way ; granting 56 Motion in Limine to Exclude Defendants Proposed Exhibit 501, the UD-10 Traffic Crash Report ; granting 62 Motion in Limine to Exclude Portions of the Testimony of Defendants Expert William Field. Signed by District Judge Paul D. Borman. (DTof)
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
EASTERN DISTRICT OF MICHIGAN
SOUTHERN DIVISION
KEVIN W. MALBURG, Personal
Representative of the Estate of
RANDY WILLIAM MALBURG,
Deceased,
Case No. 11-14856
Plaintiff,
Paul D. Borman
United States District Judge
v.
BRIAN E. GRATE and KAGY
FARMS, LLC, jointly and severally,
Defendants.
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OPINION AND ORDER REGARDING CERTAIN MOTIONS IN LIMINE
Defendants have filed 14 motions in limine and Plaintiff has filed three. Oral argument on
motions in limine is scheduled for July 22, 2014 at 9:30 a.m.1 The Court has determined that as to
certain motions, oral argument will not assist the Court in deciding the matters. The extensive
briefing is sufficient to advise the Court and thus the Court will decide these motions, as set forth
below, on the briefs and without a hearing. See E.D. Mich. L. R. 7.1(f)(2).
For the reasons that follow, the Court:
DENIES Defendants’ Motion in Limine to Exclude any Theory of Causation by Plaintiff
Based on Speculation Concerning Decedent’s Conduct (ECF No. 39; Response ECF No. 69; Reply
ECF No. 78);
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On June 26, 2014, the parties contacted the Court requesting that the hearing originally scheduled
for July 15, 2014 be adjourned due to attorney scheduling conflicts. The Court has proposed July
22, 2014 at 9:30 a.m. as an alternative date and will issue a new Notice of Hearing upon receipt of
confirmation from the parties as to the alternative date.
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DENIES Defendants’ Motion in Limine to Preclude Any Reference to Decedent Being “In
Harm’s Way” (ECF No. 55; Response ECF No. 64; Reply ECF No. 79);
GRANTS Plaintiff’s Second Amended Motion in Limine to Exclude Portions of the
Testimony of Defendants’ Expert William Field (ECF No. 62; Response ECF No. 82);
DENIES AS MOOT Plaintiff’s Amended Motion in Limine to Exclude Portions of the
Testimony of Defendants’ Expert William Field (ECF No. 31; Response ECF No. 36);
GRANTS Defendants’ Motion in Limine to Exclude Evidence of Subsequent Remedial
Measures (ECF No. 40; Response ECF No. 59; Reply ECF No. 75); and
GRANTS Plaintiff’s Motion in Limine to Exclude Defendants’ Proposed Exhibit 501, the
UD-10 Traffic Crash Report. (ECF No. 56; Response ECF No. 81; Reply ECF No. 84.)
I.
BACKGROUND
This wrongful death action arises out of an accident that occurred on a pig farm operated by
the decedent, Randy Malburg. Defendant Brian Grate was driving a truck with a trailer carrying 300
feeder pigs for delivery to the Malburg farm. During the process of positioning the trailer for
unloading, Randy Malburg became pinned at his head and neck between the trailer being driven by
Mr. Grate and the chute attached to Mr. Malburg’s barn, onto which the pigs were to have been
unloaded. Plaintiff, the personal representative of decedent’s estate, Kevin W. Malburg, brings this
action on behalf of the estate.
In an Opinion and Order dated September 6, 2013, this Court denied Defendants’ Motion
for Summary Judgment. Malburg v. Grate, et al., No. 11-14856, 2013 WL 4784436 (E.D. Mich.
Sept. 6, 2013). The Court concluded that genuine issues of material fact remain as to whether
Defendants breached a duty to the Plaintiff, whether Mr. Grate’s alleged negligence was a proximate
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cause of Randy Malburg’s death, and whether Randy Malburg was more than 50% responsible for
his own death. The facts of the case are set forth in detail in the Court’s September 6, 2013 Opinion
and Order and will be reiterated here only as necessary to provide context for the Court’s rulings on
these motions in limine.
II.
LEGAL STANDARD
“The Federal Rules of Evidence, the Federal Rules of Criminal and Civil Procedure and
interpretive rulings of the Supreme Court and this court all encourage, and in some cases require,
parties and the court to utilize extensive pretrial procedures-including motions in limine-in order to
narrow the issues remaining for trial and to minimize disruptions at trial.” United States v. Brawner,
173 F.3d 966, 970 (6th Cir. 1999). District courts have broad discretion over matters involving the
admissibility of evidence at trial. United States v. Seago, 930 F.2d 482, 494 (6th Cir. 1991).
III.
ANALYSIS
A.
Defendants’ Motion to Exclude any Theory of Causation by Plaintiff Based on
Speculation Concerning Decedent’s Conduct (ECF No. 39)
Defendants move to exclude any theory of causation that Plaintiff seeks to proffer that is
based on alleged speculation about what Mr. Malburg may have been doing just prior to being
crushed between the trailer and the chute. In particular, Defendants seek to preclude Plaintiff from
arguing to the jury the theory that Mr. Malburg was reaching to secure the trailer rope to the cleat
at the back of the trailer at the time of impact. In fact, because there were no eye witnesses to the
accident (Mr. Malburg is dead and Mr. Grate could not see the space between the tractor and chute
when he was behind the wheel of the truck), no one knows with absolute certainty what Mr. Malburg
was doing in the seconds before his head and neck became pinned. But this lack of certainty does
not require the Court to exclude competent testimony about what he might have been doing - as long
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as that testimony is grounded to some extent in the evidence that has been adduced in the case.
“That there was no eyewitness to the accident does not always prevent the making of a possible issue
of fact for the jury.” Skinner v. Square D Co., 445 Mich. 153, 164 (1994) (internal quotation and
citation omitted).
A claim of negligence may be based on circumstantial evidence but that evidence must
suggest more than a mere possibility that is just as likely as other equally plausible possibilities.
“To be adequate, a plaintiff’s circumstantial proof must facilitate reasonable inferences of causation,
not mere speculation.” Id. at 164. “The proffered evidence must fairly indicate[] a logical sequence
of cause and effect.” Id. at 167-68 (internal quotation marks and citations omitted) (alteration
added).
In this case, although the inference may be tentative, Plaintiff “nevertheless has
demonstrated a logical sequence of cause and effect which could support an inference” that Grate’s
“unreasonable conduct . . . caused the injury.”
Defendants object to Plaintiff suggesting that its theory, i.e. that Mr. Malburg was crouched
down and reaching to secure the rope to the cleat and that Mr. Grate should have known that this
dangerous move was going to occur, has any greater support in the record than any other possible
theory. Defendants propose, for example, that it is equally likely that Mr. Malburg intentionally
placed his head between the chute and the trailer in a self-destructive act. Defendants concede that
Plaintiff may attempt to establish causation based upon circumstantial evidence, but argue that the
circumstances in evidence do not “take the case out of the realm of conjecture and within the field
of legitimate inferences from established facts.” Defs.’ Reply at 1 (quoting Cote v. Lowe’s Home
Ctr., Inc., 896 F. Supp. 2d 637, 647 (E.D. Mich. 2012)). Defendants assert in their motion that there
is no evidence that Mr. Malburg had wrapped the rope around the cleat as part of the backing
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process in the past or that he intended to do so on this occasion, but facts in evidence contradict this
assertion. Among the evidentiary facts supporting an inference that Mr. Malburg had performed this
maneuver in the past and that Mr. Grate would have known that Mr. Malburg was going to reach
down to secure the rope to the cleat are the following:
1) Troy Kagy’s testimony regarding the procedure for loading pigs at the Malburg
farm suggests that when Mr. Malburg was going to raise the door while up inside the
chute, he would signal the driver to slow while he secured the rope cleat and the
driver would wait for further hand signals to finish the backing process:
Well, we pull up on the road and we back off on the blind side into
the driveway. And we’re squared up and we back approximately 50
feet from the road and we stop. And we get out and generally Mr.
Malburg at that time would show up. We would talk. And he says
I will go inside and he would stand in the chute and we would back
up approximately within a couple feet of the chute. He would stop
us with a wave of the hand. He would roll the door up and we would
proceed after a motion of the hand to come back a couple of feet until
he tells us to stop. And that was the procedure.
Kagy Dep. 12. Kagy testified that the truck would be barely creeping back while
Malburg raised the door and that while Mr. Malburg was out of sight during this
process, he never completely lost sight of Mr. Malburg’s hand directing him during
the process. Id. at 23-24, 27-28, 33-34.
2) Various witnesses testified that in order to reach over to secure the rope cleat, Mr.
Malburg would have been in a crouched position reaching outboard of the trailer,
placing his head approximately in the area where he was found pinned, in order to
secure the rope.
3) Mr. Grate’s own testimony regarding his thoughts at the time that he lost sight of
Mr. Malburg’s hand, i.e. Mr. Grate presumed that Mr. Malburg drew his hand in to
“hold the door rope:”
Just as he’s waving me back and I put the truck in reverse, he - I
started backing up, his arm came back in, you know, like he was like okay, he knows I’m doing my job, now he needs to hold the door
rope or, you know.
4) Mr. Grate’s testimony that he wished he had insisted that the door be opened and
secured before beginning the backing process on this occasion:
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Q: Was it your impression that you could safely open the back door
of the truck prior to backing it up to the chute without the pigs
running out?
A: If you’re close enough.
Q: How about if you are as close as you were at the point in time
when Mr. Malburg went up into the chute, would – is it your feeling
that you could of safely opened the rear door and gotten the truck –
had Mr. Malburg open the rear door and gotten the truck backed up
to the chute without pigs running out?
A: Yes.
Q: Why didn’t you insist on that?
A: I wish I had of, but it was ultimately his – his call.
Grate Dep. 59.
5) Christopher Ott’s testimony that it would be unreasonably dangerous to have Mr.
Malburg dealing with the door rope during the backing process:
Q: So typically what you would do under normal practice is back the
truck up to a reasonable distance from the shoot [sic] where Randy
could reach from the [chute] to the sorting board, truck driver would
be out, the truck would be stopped, correct?
A: Yes.
Q: And then Randy would stand on the [chute], hold the sorting board
with his right hand and hold his left hand above the top of the [chute]
waving the truck back?
A: Correct.
Q: As to that rear door, how did that stay up?
A: It’s controlled with a rope, and the rope has an area where you can
wind the rope around.
Q: Like a nautical cleat?
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A: Like a nautical cleat, basically keep the door in any position.
Q: So once the door was up and secured in that fashion by the truck
driver, it couldn’t come down on its own?
A: Correct.
Q: If you were present and the truck driver and maybe the farmer
decided that as the truck was backing up to the [chute], Randy would
somehow open the door, and secure the cleat as the truck is backing
up, would you object to that?
A: Yes, the way the [chute] is designed.
Q: Okay. And if you were running the truck as you did on occasion,
you’d say no, wait a minute, let me do that, correct?
A: Correct.
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Q: Is it reasonable, in your opinion, to expect somebody to do that
maneuver [raise the door] if you’re driving the truck as you’re
backing the truck up to a [chute] Randy Malburg’s [chute]?
A: I never said that Randy Malburg was raising the door. The truck
driver raised the door while he was back there.
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A: Close to the [chute], not up to it but close to the [chute].
Q: Okay. And it would be – if you’re driving the truck as the truck
driver, it would be unreasonable to ask Randy to do that as he’s
backing – as you, the truck driver, is backing this thing up to the
[chute], correct?
A: Yes.
Ott Dep. at 33-34, 38. Mr. Ott also testified that it is impossible to raise and secure the door with
one hand, see Ott Dep. at 38, and that Mr. Malburg, once up in the chute, would be holding the
sorting board with one hand to keep the pigs on the truck until the truck came to a stop and the chute
sides were inside the truck, see Ott Dep. at 32-33.
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This evidence supports an inference that Mr. Grate, who was very familiar with the design
of his trailer, knew that Mr. Malburg would be dealing with raising the door and securing the rope
while the backing process was underway. Mr. Grate testified that he heard the door being raised
after Mr. Malburg got up in the chute but before Mr. Grate actually began the final backing process.
See Grate Dep. at 61. But he also testified that when Mr. Malburg’s hand went out of his sight, Mr.
Grate presumed that Mr. Malburg was “holding the door rope,” suggesting that he was expecting
that Mr. Malburg would still need to hold/secure the rope while the truck was moving. Mr. Grate
testified that he chose not to insist that the door be opened and secured before the final backing
process took place - but he wished that he had.
To be sure there is evidence in the record to contradict this theory and it will be appropriate
for Defendants to explore these contradictions on vigorous cross examination. But Skinner only
requires that there be enough evidence to suggest that Plaintiff’s proffered scenario has a reasonable
likelihood of probability rather than a mere possibility. 445 Mich. at 267. Plaintiff’s evidence “need
not negate all other possible causes” but must have greater than equal probability as compared with
any other possible cause. Plaintiff’s evidence on this theory suggests a reasonable inference of
causation and is sufficient to permit the jury to determine whether it is possible that Mr. Malburg
was attempting to secure the rope just before he became pinned between the trailer and the chute and
that Mr. Grate was fully aware that he would be attempting this maneuver – a theory that the jury
will be free to accept or reject as they consider all of the evidence ultimately presented.
Accordingly, Defendants’ motion in limine (ECF No. 39) to exclude Plaintiff from suggesting this
theory of causation is DENIED.
B.
Defendants’ Motion to Preclude Reference to Decedent’s Being “In Harm’s
Way” While Acting as a Spotter (ECF No. 55)
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Related to Defendants’ motion to preclude Plaintiff from suggesting that Mr. Malburg was
reaching to secure the rope to the cleat at the time he was crushed between the trailer and the chute
is Defendants’ motion to preclude reference to Mr. Malburg “being in harm’s way while acting as
a spotter.” (ECF No. 55.) Defendants argue that it is pure conjecture to suggest that Mr. Grate
should have known that Mr. Malburg would move from a “place of safety” standing up inside the
chute to a place of danger, crouched and reaching to secure the door rope around the cleat.
Defendants argue that because there is no evidence that Mr. Malburg told Mr. Grate that he intended
to open the door while the truck was moving or that he would come between the trailer and the chute
as he was trying to secure the rope, any suggestion that he did so is based on pure speculation.
Defendants assert that Mr. Grate believed that the door was opened while the truck was still
stationary but Mr. Grate’s own testimony contradicts this, or at least leaves open the possibility that
he was aware that the door had not been fully lifted, as he assumed that Mr. Malburg was dealing
with the door rope when his hand disappeared.
As explained supra, there has been sufficient evidence presented to permit a jury reasonably
to infer Plaintiff’s suggested scenario. Furthermore, as discussed supra, there is sufficient evidence
from which a jury might reasonably infer that Mr. Grate knew that Mr. Malburg would have to
accomplish this task while the backing process was underway as he expressly testified that he
assumed, when he lost sight of Mr. Malburg’s hand, that Mr. Malburg was dealing with the door
rope. This permits the reasonable inference that Mr. Grate presumed that the rope had not been
finally raised and secured before he commenced his final backing toward the chute. Mr. Grate was
also aware that the door had to be up in order for the truck to mesh with the chute. Also, as
discussed supra, at least one witness familiar with the unloading process at the Malburg farm,
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Christopher Ott, testified that this was an inherently dangerous process, particularly if the driver
were to totally lose sight of Mr. Malburg, which Mr. Grate has testified occurred in this case. For
the same reasons that the Court denies Defendants’ motion to preclude Plaintiff from suggesting that
Mr. Malburg may have been reaching to secure the door rope at the time he became pinned between
the truck and the chute, the Court also denies Defendants’ motion to preclude Plaintiff from
suggesting that Mr. Grate knew or should have known that Mr. Malburg may have been doing just
that when his hand disappeared from Mr. Grate’s sight.
Accordingly, the Court DENIES
Defendants’ Motion in Limine to Preclude Reference to Decedent Being “In Harm’s Way” While
Acting as a Spotter. (ECF No. 55.)
C.
Plaintiff’s Amended Motion (ECF No. 31) and Second Amended Motion (ECF
No. 62) to Exclude Portions of the Opinion Testimony of Defendants’ Expert
William Field, Ed.D
In his Amended Motion in Limine, Plaintiff sought to preclude four different subparts, a-d,
of the opinion of Defendants’ expert, Dr. William Field. (ECF No. 31.) In his Second Amended
Motion (ECF No. 62), Plaintiff seeks to preclude only the opinion contained in the fourth subpart
in which Dr. Field opines that Randy Malburg may have committed suicide by intentionally placing
his head between the chute and the trailer as the backing process was underway. The Court agrees
with Plaintiff that this theory has zero evidentiary basis and goes far beyond the realm of possibility
into the world of pure conjecture. Dr. Field will be precluded from offering Randy Malburg’s
suicide as a possible theory of how his head came to be crushed between Defendants’ trailer and the
chute. Plaintiff’s Second Amended Motion in Limine (ECF No. 62) is GRANTED. Plaintiff’s
Amended Motion in Limine is DENIED AS MOOT (ECF No. 31).
D.
Defendants’ Motion in Limine to Exclude Evidence of Subsequent Remedial
Measures (ECF No. 40)
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Defendants ask the Court to exclude any evidence or reference to subsequent remedial
measures implemented by Defendant Kagy Farms following the accident in this case. Fed. R. Evid.
407 provides that:
When measures are taken that would have made an earlier injury or harm less likely
to occur, evidence of the subsequent measures is not admissible to prove:
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negligence;
culpable conduct;
a defect in a product or its design; or
a need for a warning or instruction.
But the court may admit this evidence for another purpose, such as
impeachment or – if disputed – proving ownership, control, or the
feasibility of precautionary measures.
Fed. R. Evid. 407.
Plaintiff does not deny that evidence that Kagy Farms, subsequent to the accident in this
case, adopted a policy prohibiting their drivers from backing to a delivery chute unless the person
taking delivery is visible on the ground, is not admissible to prove negligence. Defendants do not
dispute, and do not intend to dispute at trial, that such a policy was feasible at the time of the
accident. Plaintiff however insists that Defendants enter into a written stipulation, presumably to
be read to the jury, acknowledging that such a safety procedure was feasible at the time of the
accident. In support of the assertion that a stipulation is necessary to take the issue of feasability out
of the case, Plaintiff cites a Seventh Circuit case, Ross v. Black & Decker, Inc., 977 F.2d 1178, 1185
(7th Cir. 1992), in which defendant did contest feasability. The Court is not bound by the decision
of the Seventh Circuit which, in any event, the Court finds distinguishable. In Ross, it was clear that
the defendant openly contested feasability. Id. at 1185. Given the Defendants’ representation that
they do not intend to dispute feasability, the Court sees no basis for requiring a stipulation to that
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effect and GRANTS Defendants’ motion in limine to exclude evidence of subsequent remedial
measures. (ECF No. 40.)
E.
Plaintiff’s Motion in Limine to Exclude Defendants’ Proposed Exhibit 501, the
UD-10 Traffic Crash Report (ECF No. 56)
Defendants’ proposed Exhibit 501 is the UD-10 State of Michigan Traffic Crash Report that
indicates on its face that it was created under the authority of and in compliance with Mich. Comp.
Laws § 257.622. Pl.’s Mot. Ex. A, UD-10 Traffic Crash Report. Mich. Comp. Laws § 257.622
provides that an “officer receiving the report [of a driver of a motor vehicle involved in an accident
that injures or kills any person] . . . shall immediately forward each report to the director of the
department of state police on forms prescribed by the director of the department of state police.”
(Alteration added.) There is no question that the UD-10 Traffic Crash Report that Plaintiff seeks
to exclude is a report prepared in compliance with Mich. Comp. Laws § 257.622.
Mich. Comp. Laws § 257.624 provides in pertinent part as follows:
Sec. 624. (1) A report required by this chapter shall not be available for use in a court
action, but a report shall be for the purpose of furnishing statistical information
regarding the number and cause of accidents.
Mich. Comp. Laws § 257.624.
The Michigan Supreme Court has held that this statutory provision “is confined to the reports
mandated by the statute, and has no effect on the rules of evidence regarding the police officer’s
personal notes or the routine report, usually entitled ‘Motor Vehicle Accident Report,’ that the
officer takes at the scene of the accident.” Moncrief v. City of Detroit, 398 Mich. 181, 191 (1976).
Defendants suggest that the “report” referred to in section 624 is only the “verbal” report given to
the investigating officer and is not the physical written report that appears on the official form as
mandated by the statute. Defendants provide no authority for such a proposition. Defendants’
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reliance on this Court’s opinion in Weinstein v. Siemens, No. 07-cv-15000, 2010 WL 4824952 (E.D.
Mich. Nov. 22, 2010) is misplaced. In that case, the reports being offered into evidence were not
UD-10 Reports and did not appear on a “State of Michigan Traffic Crash Report” form, indicating
on their face that they was prepared in compliance with Mich. Comp. Laws § 257.622. Quite the
contrary, the reports in Siemens were the officers’ narrative investigative reports and did not fall
within the narrow category of the “red-line” reports statutorily mandated by section 622 and
expressly barred from admission in a court proceeding by section 624. The report in this case, by
contrast, is precisely the type of statutorily mandated report contemplated for exclusion under
section 624. The statute does not say that the “verbal part” of the 622 report shall be excluded from
evidence – it says the 622 report shall be excluded from evidence. And so it shall be. Apart from
their own unsupported interpretation of the statute, Defendants’ suggest no authority for separating
from the UD-10 Report the driver’s “verbal” report so that only some “portion” of the Traffic Crash
Report would be excluded under section 624. Accordingly, the Court GRANTS Plaintiff’s Motion
in Limine to Exclude Defendants’ Proposed Exhibit 501, the UD-10 Traffic Crash Report. (ECF No.
56.)
IV.
CONCLUSION
For the foregoing reasons, the Court:
DENIES Defendants’ Motion in Limine to Exclude any Theory of Causation by Plaintiff
Based on Speculation Concerning Decedent’s Conduct (ECF No. 39);
DENIES Defendants’ Motion in Limine to Preclude Any Reference to Decedent Being in
Harm’s Way (ECF No. 55);
GRANTS Plaintiff’s Second Amended Motion in Limine to Exclude Portions of the
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Testimony of Defendants’ Expert William Field (ECF No. 62);
DENIES AS MOOT Plaintiff’s Amended Motion in Limine to Exclude Portions of the
Testimony of Defendants’ Expert William Field (ECF No. 31);
GRANTS Defendants’ Motion in Limine to Exclude Evidence of Subsequent Remedial
Measures (ECF No. 40); and
GRANTS Plaintiff’s Motion in Limine to Exclude Defendants’ Proposed Exhibit 501, the
UD-10 Traffic Crash Report. (ECF No. 56.)
The Court will proceed to hear argument, as scheduled on July 22, 2014 at 9:30 a.m. on
the following remaining motions in limine:
(1) Defendants’ Motion in Limine to Exclude Certain Testimony of Plaintiff’s Expert
Lew Grill (ECF No. 28). In connection with this motion, the Court will also hear
argument on (a) Defendants’ Motion in Limine to Preclude Any Reference to Failure
to Have Agreed Upon Hand Signals (ECF No. 61), (b) Defendants’ Motion in Limine
to Preclude Any Reference to Defendant Kagy Farm’s Failure to Adopt a Policy
Regarding Spotters (ECF No. 54), (c) Defendants’ Motion in Limine to Exclude
Plaintiff’s Exhibit 115 (ECF No. 51) and (d) Defendants’ Motion in Limine to
Preclude Plaintiff From Introducing Evidence Relating to the Federal Motor Carrier
Regulations (ECF No. 43). Each side will be allowed a total of 30 minutes to
argue all five of these motions;
(2) Defendants’ Motion in Limine to Exclude Certain Testimony of Plaintiff’s Expert
Thomas Green (ECF No. 29). Each side will be allowed a total of 10 minutes to
argue this motion;
(3) Defendants’ Motion in Limine to Preclude any Expert Testimony by Bader J.
Cassin, M.D. (ECF No. 42), which shall be argued together with Defendants’ Motion
to Strike Plaintiff’s Supplemental Expert Disclosures (ECF No. 60). Each side will
be allowed a total of 15 minutes to argue these two motions;
(4) Defendants’ Motion in Limine to Preclude any Evidence Concerning the Parties’
Roles Which is Contrary to the Contract (ECF No. 52). Each side will be allowed
10 minutes to argue this motion;
(5) Defendants’ Motion in Limine to Preclude Any Evidence Concerning Negligent
Loading of the Trailer by Defendant Kagy Farms (ECF No. 53). Each side will be
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allowed 10 minutes to argue this motion.
IT IS SO ORDERED.
s/Paul D. Borman
PAUL D. BORMAN
UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE
Dated: June 26, 2014
CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE
The undersigned certifies that a copy of the foregoing order was served upon each attorney or party
of record herein by electronic means or first class U.S. mail on June 26, 2014.
s/Deborah Tofil
Case Manager
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