Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
No. 11-1482
JOSEPH KAUFFMAN,
Plaintiff Appellant,
v.
PARK PLACE HOSPITALITY GROUP, d/b/a Holiday Inn; RIVERVIEW
HOSPITALITY LLC,
Defendants - Appellees.
Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of
South Carolina, at Charleston.
Margaret B. Seymour, District
Judge. (2:09-cv-01399-MBS)
Submitted:
Decided:
March 8, 2012
Neil
A.
Morris,
ARCHER
&
GREINER,
P.C.,
Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, for Appellant. Amanda Morgan Blundy, J. Bennett
Crites, III, MCANGUS GOUDELOCK & COURIE, LLC, Charleston, South
Carolina, for Appellees.
PER CURIAM:
Joseph
granting
Kauffman
Appellees
appeals
motion
in
the
district
limine
and
courts
motion
orders
for
summary
Kauffman suffered a
erred
architects
in
testimony
summary judgment.
Appellees
and
in
motion
granting
to
exclude
Appellees
an
motion
for
judgment,
inferences
nonmoving
viewing
therefrom
party.
the
in
Bonds
the
v.
facts
light
Leavitt,
and
drawing
most
629
reasonable
favorable
F.3d
369,
to
the
380
(4th
Summary judgment
summary
judgment
verdict
for
the
unless
nonmoving
reasonable
party
on
jury
the
could
evidence
return
presented.
defendant
to
discharge
the
duty;
[and]
(3)
injury
to
the
State
Ports
Auth.
v.
Booz-Allen
&
Hamilton,
Inc.,
346
exercise
the
reasonable
care
for
safety
of
an
invitee,
who
2001).
Code was the code applicable to the Holiday Inn at the time of
Kauffmans fall, that code did not require handrail extensions,
and Kauffman did not show that Appellees otherwise had a duty to
alter the ramps handrail, we hold that the district court did
not err in finding that Appellees did not breach their duty to
exercise reasonable care for Kauffmans safety.
We review a district courts evidentiary decisions for
abuse of discretion.
the
subject
of
[his]
testimony.
Id.
at
294.
Expert
F.3d
111,
qualifications
123
(4th
required
Cir.
of
2011).
expert
The
competency
witnesses
is
and
matter
Ludlow
Corp. v. Textile Rubber & Chem. Co., 636 F.2d 1057, 1060 (5th
Cir. 1981).
We conclude that Kauffmans proffered expert did not
evince
specialized
knowledge,
skill,
experience,
training,
or
Accordingly, we
hold that the district court did not abuse its broad discretion
in granting Appellees motion in limine.
We therefore affirm the district courts orders.
dispense
with
oral
argument
because
the
facts
and
We
legal