033836P.pdf   01/12/2005  Travelers Indemnity  v.  Canon U.S.A., Inc.
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  03-3836
   District of Minnesota   
   Civil case - products liability. District court did not err in excluding 
   plaintiff's expert testimony on cause of fire on the basis that the 
   testimony was unreliable and potentially confusing to a jury; the 
   experimental testing on which the testimony was based did not meet 
   National Fire Protection Association standards for fire investigations; 
   alternative theory advanced by the experts was not supported by the 
   evidentiary record; even if the testimony was admissible, the district court 
   was correct in its alternative finding that the evidence failed to establish 
   that the supposed defect in the Canon copier was the proximate cause of 
   the fire. 
   [PUBLISHED] [Gruender, Author, with Bye and Lay, Circuit Judges]