United States Seventh Circuit

District court erred in excluding evidence of substantially similar accidents that had occurred at the S-curve in the years immediately before and after plaintiff's accident; a new trial is warranted. On remand, the admissibility of plaintiff's expert testimony should be freshly addressed.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/05/2004
• Published 03/05/2004

Judges

• ILANA DIAMOND ROVNER, Circuit Judge., Before BAUER, MANION, and ROVNER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• David A. Novoselsky (argued), Leslie J. Rosen, Novoselsky Law Offices, Chicago, IL, George P. Lindner, Lindner, Speers & Reuland, Aurora, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Daniel F. Konicek, (argued), Konicek & Dillon, Geneva, IL, for Defendants-Appellees.