Filed: May 24, 2018
Latest Update: May 24, 2018
Summary: ORDER JAN E. DuBOIS , District Judge . AND NOW, this 23rd day of May, 2018, upon consideration of Plaintiffs' Motion to Exclude the Proposed Expert Testimony of Chaim Saiman (Document No. 121, filed April 17, 2017), Defendant Cushman & Wakefield of Pennsylvania, Inc.'s Memorandum of Law in Opposition to Plaintiffs' Motion to Exclude the Proposed Expert Testimony of Chaim Saiman (Document No. 135, May 24, 2017), Plaintiffs' Reply Memorandum of Law in Further Support of their Motion to Excl
Summary: ORDER JAN E. DuBOIS , District Judge . AND NOW, this 23rd day of May, 2018, upon consideration of Plaintiffs' Motion to Exclude the Proposed Expert Testimony of Chaim Saiman (Document No. 121, filed April 17, 2017), Defendant Cushman & Wakefield of Pennsylvania, Inc.'s Memorandum of Law in Opposition to Plaintiffs' Motion to Exclude the Proposed Expert Testimony of Chaim Saiman (Document No. 135, May 24, 2017), Plaintiffs' Reply Memorandum of Law in Further Support of their Motion to Exclu..
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ORDER
JAN E. DuBOIS, District Judge.
AND NOW, this 23rd day of May, 2018, upon consideration of Plaintiffs' Motion to Exclude the Proposed Expert Testimony of Chaim Saiman (Document No. 121, filed April 17, 2017), Defendant Cushman & Wakefield of Pennsylvania, Inc.'s Memorandum of Law in Opposition to Plaintiffs' Motion to Exclude the Proposed Expert Testimony of Chaim Saiman (Document No. 135, May 24, 2017), Plaintiffs' Reply Memorandum of Law in Further Support of their Motion to Exclude the Proposed Expert Testimony of Chaim Saiman (Document No. 170, filed June 14, 2017), and Cushman & Wakefield and plaintiffs' joint letter dated May 11, 2018, setting forth the remaining issues with respect to Plaintiffs' Motion to Exclude the Expert Testimony of Chiam Saiman, for the reasons set forth in the accompanying Memorandum, dated May 23, 2018, IT IS ORDERED that the Motion is GRANTED IN PART and DENIED IN PART as follows:
1) That part of the Motion which seeks to preclude Professor Chaim Saiman from testifying as to whether the conduct of Berish Berger was consistent with business practices and customs found within the ultra-Orthodox Jewish Community is DENIED;
2) That part of the Motion which seeks to preclude Professor Chaim Saiman from testifying regarding Eli Weinstein's larger scheme of religious affinity fraud is GRANTED;
3) That part of the Motion which seeks to preclude Professor Chaim Saiman from testifying as to the translation of a letter from Chaim Leifer to Berish Berger dated December 17, 2006, from Hebrew to English is GRANTED IN PART and DENIED IN PART. Saiman may translate Leifer's letter and may testify as to Biblical and Talmudic references contained in that letter and annotated in Saiman's translation. Saiman may not testify as to Leifer's underlying intent and state of mind.