The defendants in a proposed price-fixing class action brought a motion to strike the affidavits of the plaintiffs' economics expert, arguing the proposed methodologies for calculating aggregate damages and pass-through rates were invalid and unreliable.
The court applied the test for admissibility of expert evidence and found that the expert's proposed regression models and economic analyses met the threshold for reliability and were highly probative to the certification motion.
The motion to strike was dismissed, with the issue of the legal relevance of umbrella purchaser claims deferred to the certification hearing.
