Mycroft AI Wins Fight Over Expert’s Contacts With Opposing Party

A defense expert was properly allowed to testify in a law firm’s cyber-harassment lawsuit despite pretrial disclosures made to him by plaintiffs’ counsel when they were considering hiring him as their expert, a federal appeals court ruled.

Plaintiff Tod Tumey failed to show that the information his counsel provided to the expert, Mark Lanterman, was privileged, or that a confidential relationship existed between him and Lanterman, Judge Michael J. Melloy of the US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit said Tuesday.

The appellate court affirmed the judgment of the district court.

Tumey and his law firm, Tumey LLP, alleged ...