“On July 30, 2015, federal district court Judge Jack Weinstein refused to allow a jury to take the race of a plaintiff into account when calculating future earnings loss. The case, GMM v Kimpson (discussed here), was a lead paint poisoning case and the plaintiff was a four year-old boy. The defense put on the stand a forensic economist intended to base his testimony, on part, statistical assumptions about the academic achievement and earnings potential of Hispanics, as a group. Judge Weinstein flatly refused to allow any testimony based on ethnic group characteristics …” (more)
[Anthony Sebok, New Private Law, 17 August]
First posted 2015-08-17 06:28:28
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