United States Fifth Circuit

Defendant's appeal, contending that district court erred in admitting the testimony of a "grief expert" and in upholding the jury's damage award to plaintiff for the future mental anguish and loss of society due to the deaths of his wife and young child, is affirmed in part and reversed in part.

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/25/2003
• Published 11/25/2003

Judges

• CLEMENT, Circuit Judge:, Before REAVLEY, JONES and CLEMENT, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Darrin M. Walker (argued), Law Office of Darrin Walker, Kingwood, TX, for Plaintiff-Appellee., Reagan W. Simpson (argued), King & Spalding, Houston, TX, Curtis William Fenley, III, Fenley & Bate, Lufkin, TX, for Defendants-Appellants.