Opinion ID: 168467
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Heading Rank: 4

Heading: Summary Judgment on the Manufacturing Defect Claim

Text: 26 Plaintiff next asserts that the district court erred in granting defendant's motion for summary judgment on the manufacturing defect claim. In making this argument, however, plaintiff relies primarily on its contention that the district court abused its discretion by excluding plaintiff's expert testimony and that the expert testimony creates a genuine issue of material fact. As discussed above, the district court properly excluded the testimony of plaintiff's expert. 27 The only other argument that plaintiff advances on this issue is that this court's earlier decision in this case indicated that the manufacturing defect claim should be decided by a jury. Although that decision did reverse the district court's earlier grant of summary judgment in favor of defendant, the decision was based solely on this court's conclusions that the district court abused its discretion in rejecting plaintiff's expert rebuttal report as untimely and in relying on the exclusion of the rebuttal report to reject plaintiff's other expert reports, and that therefore the district court erred in granting summary judgment based on the exclusion of all of plaintiff's expert reports. 103 Investors I, L.P., 372 F.3d at 1218. There was no discussion of whether the expert opinions ultimately should be admissible or whether the opinions created a genuine issue of material fact. Id. at 1214-18. 28 On remand, the district court granted summary judgment on the manufacturing claim because plaintiff produced no evidence, other than Mr. Martin's excluded expert testimony, that the busway was unreasonably dangerous when it left defendant's control. Plaintiff has not shown that the district court erred in making this determination.