Dr Gurumurthy Kalyanaram, Dean, Former and Former Professor NYIT and UT Dallas and Expert Witness

REPORTS ON China’s Prosecution of Uighur scholar IlhamTohti

Dr. Gurumurthy Kalyanaram - Dean and former NYIT and UT Dallas professor, and expert witness, Gurumurthy Kalyanaram reports on China’s Prosecution of Uighur scholar IlhamTohti. Gurumurthy Kalyanaram Lawsuit

China filed a criminal lawsuit against Uighur scholar IlhamTohti charging with separatism, a very serious crime in China.  After two days of trial, the Court in China has upheld the charge and has found against Tohti in lawsuit filed by the State.  And now Tohti faces life imprisonment.  Tohti’s case has received great attention from media, policy makers, human right activists, legal scholars and lay men and women.

Gurumurthy Kalyanaram - Reports on The Lawsuits against Union Carbide (US) and British Petroleum (UK)

Gurumurthy Kalyanaram, Dean and former NYIT and UT Dallas professor, and expert witness, Gurumurthy Kalyanaram reports on the two similar lawsuits but with dramatically different adjudications.

Two industrial disasters have brought two different outcomes in the US courts.

First, let us review the Clean Water Act lawsuit filed by the US Department of Justice and others against British Petroleum (BP) for liabilities in the explosion of Deepwater Horizon and massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in April 2010.

Gurumurthy Kalyanaram, Dean, Expert Witness and Former Professor NYIT and UT Dallas – Reports on Expert Witness in Litigation

Gurumurthy Kalyanaram, Dean, Expert Witness and former NYIT and UT Dallas professor Gurumurthy Kalyanaram reports on the need and status of expert witness in lawsuits (litigation).

Experts provide important inputs in arbitrations and litigations (lawsuits). Their input/counsel gives the fact-finder an objective rendition of the facts and assessment of those facts, and facilitates fair adjudication of the dispute/lawsuit.

Without an appropriate expert litigation (lawsuit) can flounder. In a decision in July 2014, Honorable Judge Laura Taylor Swain dismissed the class-action (Celebrex and Bextra) lawsuit against Pfizer because, “Plaintiffs' failure to proffer admissible loss causation and damages evidence is fatal to plaintiffs' claims" after the defendant admitted "without a damages expert a securities fraud trial can't be tried.”