Capacity Case Illustrates Witness Weight
By Doug Chalgian on February 18, 2019
This unpublished opinion provides an opportunity to discuss the types of witnesses that are often involved in lack of capacity and undue influence cases, and how they...
Published Opinion: No Immunity for Retained Expert
By Doug Chalgian on January 5, 2019
This question could have come up in some other type of case, but it came up in a probate case and that case is published, so I’ll write...
Great Facts and Experts Can’t Survive Summary
By Doug Chalgian on November 22, 2018
An unpublished opinion today that looks at the question of when expert opinions are sufficient to create a question of fact, versus when they remain mere speculation; in...
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