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Case: 1:11-cv-00103-GHD-DAS Doc #: 320 Filed: 11/08/13 1 of 10 PageID #: 5940

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 REBUTTAL TO RESPONSE TO MOTION TO EXCLUDE TESTIMONY OF KELLY BLAKE MENDROP May It Please the Court: Plaintiff, Kmart Corporation, respectfully submits this Rebuttal to the Response to its Motion to Exclude Testimony of Kelly Blake Mendrop. Mr. Mendrop’s opinions regarding the effect of debris blockage in Elam Creek under KCSR’s bridge at milepost 328.10 on the flooding at Kmart’s store in Corinth, Mississippi on May 2, 2010 should be excluded because Mr. Mendrop’s opinions are based on models that use insufficient and unreliable data that does not accurately reflect the conditions of the KCSR bridge and the area between the bridge and the Kmart store at the time of the flood. Mr. Mendrop’s opinions are, therefore, unreliable and inadmissible. I.

Law and Argument Mr. Mendrop’s testimony should be excluded because the models on which his opinions are

based use insufficient and unreliable data. Federal Rule of Evidence 702 requires that there be sufficient facts or data underlying proffered expert testimony.1 “[A]ny step that renders the analysis

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FED. R. EVID. 702.


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