Trial Plaintiff Opposes Motion to Exclude Disability Evidence

CLEVELAND - The plaintiff in a scheduled May 7 welding fume trial argued in response to a defense motion to exclude evidence of his Social Security disability and workers' compensation claims that such an order would prevent him from introducing "relevant, admissible evidence" Mann v. Airco/The BOC Group Inc., No. 1:06-CV-17288 [MDL Docket No. 1535] (N.D. Ohio).

Plaintiff David Mann contended in his April 5 response brief that the motion to exclude that U.S. District Judge Kathleen M. O'Malley's decision to bar similar evidence in an earlier trial was done to avoid misleading the jury but should not be read …