Calif. Appellate Court Amends Opinion to Limit Exclusion of 2 Mold Tests

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. - California's Second Appellate District on March 28 ordered its Feb. 27 opinion on challenged mold data and testimony published, but it added a footnote limiting its ruling on two controversial medical tests to the facts of the case. Geffcken v. D'Andrea, No. B176232 (Calif. 2nd App. Dist.).

In its Feb. 27 opinion, the court affirmed judgment for landlord and employer defendants after ruling that the trial court did not abuse its discretion in excluding plaintffs' offer of mold sampling data and testimony from plaintiffs' experts who, in part, relied on that data and challenged medical testing …