Exclusion Of Expert Was Too Harsh Of A Sanction, Tennessee Appeals Court Says

( February 25, 2025, 8:05 AM EST) -- JACKSON, Tenn. — A Tennessee trial court failed to show that a woman’s violation of a discovery order “was contumacious, intentional, blatant, or otherwise so egregious as to justify the harshest sanction available, i.e., exclusion of [her] expert and dismissal of her lawsuit,” a state appeals court held, reversing the exclusion of the witness and award of summary judgment....