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Case: 1:11-cv-00103-GHD-DAS Doc #: 228 Filed: 09/04/13 1 of 14 PageID #: 1392

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF MISSISSIPPI ABERDEEN DIVISION KMART CORPORATION, Plaintiff CIV. ACT. NO. 1:11-CV-103-GHD-DAS versus THE KROGER CO., et al. Defendants PLAINTIFF’S MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF OBJECTIONS TO THE MAGISTRATE JUDGE’S ORDER DENYING PLAINTIFF’S MOTION FOR LEAVE TO FILE THE AMENDED REPORT OF JOHN R. KREWSON May It Please the Court: Plaintiff, Kmart Corporation, respectfully submits this memorandum in support of its objections to the magistrate judge’s ruling denying Kmart leave to file the Amended Report of its expert, John R. Krewson, and requests that this Court vacate the magistrate judge’s ruling, pursuant to Local Uniform Civil Rule 72. I.

Background This case involves damages sustained by Kmart due to flooding to its store in Corinth,

Mississippi on May 2, 2010. At the deposition of Kmart’s hydrological engineering expert, Mr. Krewson, taken on May 22, 2013, it was discovered for the first time that the models relied on by Mr. Krewson in his Flooding Evaluation dated September 20, 2012 (“Initial Report”) contained a mistake that affected the conclusions in his report.1 In preparation of his Initial Report, Mr. Krewson had prepared HEC-RAS models for the Kmart and Kroger sites using as-built survey data and the 1

See Declaration of John R. Krewson at ¶ 9, attached as Exhibit A to Doc. 176, Kmart’s Motion for Leave to File Amended Report of John R. Krewson, Motion to Continue Discovery Deadline or, in the Alternative, Motion to Continue Trial Date.


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