062385P.pdf   02/28/2007  Robert Droste  v.  Douglas Julian
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  06-2385
   U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri - St. Louis   
   [PUBLISHED] [Bye, author, with Chief Judge Loken and Shepherd,
   Circuit Judges]
   Civil Case - diversity - negligence. Review of dismissal of negligence
   and negligent misrepresentation claims is precluded by absence of
   transcript of district court proceedings. Denial of motion to exclude
   expert is denied as moot. Disqualification of counsel at pretrial stage was
   an abuse of discretion but error was harmless because there was no
   showing what original attorney would have done or how they were
   prejudiced by substitute counsel. Costs to defendants was not an abuse of
   discretion because defendants prevailed before voluntary dismissal of
   remaining claims.