[brief] TABLE OF AUTHORITIES ........................................................................................................ iii  TABLE OF JUDGMENTS  ORDERS AND RULINGS BEING APPEALED ..................................  iv  TABLE OF APPENDIX ................................................................................................................ v  INTRODUCTORY STATEMENT .................................................................................................  1  STATEMENT OF PROCEDURAL HISTORY .............................................................................  1  A.  The Parties and the Pleadings ............................................................................................  1  B.  The Report of Plaintiffs’ Damages Expert, [...] .......................................................  3  C.  Defendants’ Repeated Efforts to Bar [...]’s Report ...................................................  4  1.  The Summary Judgment Motion of [...] and [...] ..................................  5  2.  The Motions for Reconsideration by All Defendants .......................................................  6  3.  The Improper Motion to bar of [...] and [...] ....................................................  7  4.  Defendants’ final summary judgment motion .................................................................  8  STATEMENT OF FACTS  .............................................................................................................  9  POINT I ......................................................................................................................................  21  THE TRIAL COURT MADE NUMEROUS ERRORS OF FACT IN ITS STATEMENT OF REASONS, IMPERMISSIBLY AND INAPPROPRIATELY ACTING AS A REBUTTAL EXPERT TO DR. POWELL AND CONTESTING  THE FACTS ESTABLISHED BY [...] (1282a-1296a)  ........................................................................................................  21  POINT II ..................................................................................................................................................38  THE TRIAL COURT ERRONEOUSLY BARRED DR. POWELL’S EXPERT REPORT AND GRANTED DEFENDANTS SUMMARY  JUDGMENT BY IMPERMISSIBLY CREATING ITS OWN STANDARD AND FAILING TO CORRECTLY APPLY  THE STANDARD SET FORTH BY THE SUPREME COURT OF NEW JERSEY (1282a-1296a)  .................................................................38  POINT III ..................................................................................................................................................47  THE TRIAL COURT ERRED BY NOT PERMITTING MARTIN [...] TO TESTIFY AT THE RULE 104  HEARING (4T, 14:7-8)  ....47  CONCLUSION ...........................................................................................................................................48  TABLE OF AUTHORITIES  Am. Sanitary Sales Co. v. State, Dep't of Treasury, Div. of Purchase & Prop., 178 N.J. Super. 429, 435 (App. Div. 1981)..................................................42  Schwartz v. Menas, 251 N.J. 556, 577 (2022)........................................1, 8, 9, 38, 46 Tessmar v. Grosner, 23 N.J. 193, 203 (1957).................................................42  V.A.L. Floors, Inc. v. Westminister Communities, Inc., 355 N.J. Super. 416 (App. Div. 2002)......................................................42, 46  Statutes Rule 104.................................................................................................1, 2, 9, 32, 47  TABLE OF JUDGMENTS