Consumer class actions expert witnesses

Expert class library · 4 classes

The survey and pricing experts in consumer class actions: conjoint analysis, consumer perception, hedonic price premiums and the defense critics of each.

Each class is defined by role and method, never by a person or a firm. Open one for what it is retained to answer, how its testimony is attacked under Rule 702, and the rulings, each read in the opinion.

Usually retained by plaintiffs

Conjoint survey damages expert

Choice-based conjoint survey · Willingness-to-pay estimation

Hedonic regression price-premium economist

Hedonic regression · Product attribute coding

Usually retained by the defense

Defense survey rebuttal expert

Survey design critique · Control group testing

Retained by either side

Consumer perception survey expert

Consumer perception survey · Materiality survey

Recent rulings

The 10 most recent of 12 rulings in this practice, newest first. Each links to the free opinion on CourtListener and to the class it belongs to.

OutcomeCaseCourtExpert class
ExcludedIn re KIND LLC "Healthy and All Natural" LitigationNo. 22-26842d Cir. 2024Consumer perception survey expert
AdmittedLytle v. Nutramax Laboratories, Inc.99 F.4th 5579th Cir. 2024Conjoint survey damages expert
LimitedIn re FCA US LLC382 F. Supp. 3d 687E.D. Mich. 2019Defense survey rebuttal expert
LimitedTownsend v. Monster Beverage Corp.303 F. Supp. 3d 1010C.D. Cal. 2018Conjoint survey damages expert
AdmittedIn re Dial Complete Marketing & Sales Practices Litigation320 F.R.D. 326D.N.H. 2017Conjoint survey damages expert
AdmittedHughes v. Ester C Co.317 F.R.D. 333E.D.N.Y. 2016Hedonic regression price-premium economist
AdmittedMullins v. Premier Nutrition Corp.178 F. Supp. 3d 867N.D. Cal. 2016Consumer perception survey expert
AdmittedBern Unlimited, Inc. v. Burton Corp.95 F. Supp. 3d 184D. Mass. 2015Defense survey rebuttal expert
AdmittedIn re ConAgra Foods, Inc.90 F. Supp. 3d 919C.D. Cal. 2015Hedonic regression price-premium economist
ExcludedIn re ConAgra Foods, Inc.302 F.R.D. 537C.D. Cal. 2014Hedonic regression price-premium economist

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The library summarises public decisions for orientation; it is not legal advice. Read the opinion before relying on any ruling. No individual expert is named.