CLIFFORD v. CROP PRODUCTION SERVICES, INC.

No. 10-1377.

627 F.3d 268 (2010)

John C. CLIFFORD, III, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. CROP PRODUCTION SERVICES, INC., Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided November 29, 2010.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Brian T. Schurter (argued), Tummelson, Bryan & Knox, Urbana, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Aaron D. Van Oort (argued), Faegre & Benson, Minneapolis, MN, and Ross Johnson and Carolyn Gunkel , Faegre & Benson, Des Moines, IA, for Defendant-Appellee.

Before POSNER and WOOD, Circuit Judges, and ADELMAN, District Judge.


ADELMAN, District Judge.

In this negligence case involving Illinois substantive law, the district court granted the's motion for summary judgment after excluding the plaintiff's expert witness and concluding that, without expert testimony, the plaintiff's claim failed as a matter of law. The plaintiff appeals both the exclusion of his expert witness and the district court's grant of summary judgment. We affirm.

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