061560P.pdf   03/28/2007  Frances A. Ahlberg  v.  Chrysler Corp.
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  06-1560
                          and No:  06-2493
   U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa - Des Moines   
   [PUBLISHED] [Bowman, Author, with Bye and Gruender, Circuit
   Judges]
   Civil cases -Torts. In action alleging defendant was negligent in failing
   to provide a brake-shift interlock device in plaintiff's 1999 Ram pickup,
   evidence that defendant had run a retrofit brake-shift interlock program
   for Jeeps was properly excluded under Rule 403; district court did not
   abuse its discretion in refusing to allow plaintiff's expert to testify 
   on the issue of whether the truck was unreasonably dangerous because it 
   lacked the device as the expert offered no methodology for his conclusions; 
   no error in excluding that witness's testimony about safety meetings at
   Chrysler as the testimony was hearsay; limits on admissibility of similar
   accidents were not an abuse of discretion; cost order entered after notice
   of appeal was filed had no effect and would not be reviewed on appeal;
   challenge to cost order entered by the clerk before notice of appeal was
   filed was waived because the plaintiffs did not first seek review of that
   order in the district court.