by Royer Advisors | Dec 11, 2024 | Court Rulings
Brighton Collectibles, Inc. v. RK Texas Leather Mfg., 2013 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 24644 (Feb. 12, 2013) The plaintiff’s expert claimed $115 million in damages from lost sales, but the defendants argued the testimony was inadmissible under Daubert for many reasons,...
by Royer Advisors | Dec 11, 2024 | Court Rulings, Divorce Litigation
Russell v. Russell, 2013 Ark. App. LEXIS 151 (Feb. 27, 2013) The husband challenged the trial court’s valuation of a family business, claiming there was no credible evidence to show it had a “fair market value” independent of the company’s...
by Royer Advisors | Dec 11, 2024 | Court Rulings
The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals considered how to measure damages for a facility with no real market when it reviewed the district court’s $3.8 million award to the plaintiff related to a destroyed waste treatment plant. The defendants owned and operated a...
by Royer Advisors | Dec 11, 2024 | Court Rulings
In a post-trial bid to upset the outcome in Liberty Media Corp. v. Vivendi Universal, S.A., 2013 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 19485 (Feb. 12, 2013), Vivendi argued that no jury “should have been permitted to base a verdict” on the unreliable loss causation and damages...
by Royer Advisors | Dec 11, 2024 | Court Rulings
O’Rourke v. Burke and Hotchkiss, PLLC, 2013 N.H. Super. LEXIS 4 (March 6, 2013) Citing an authority on the going concern methodology but failing to apply the prescribed principles was only one of several critical errors an expert made when he assessed damages...
by Royer Advisors | Dec 11, 2024 | Court Rulings
Samson v. Western Capital Partners LLC (In re Blixseth), 2013 Bankr. LEXIS 1001 (March 28, 2013) “The Trustee … continues the fiction that [the debtor], one of the Forbes’ 400 wealthiest Americans in 2007, was insolvent during that very same year” is...
