231004P.pdf   10/24/2023  Tumey, LLP  v.  Mycroft AI, Inc.
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  23-1004
                          and No:  23-1214
   U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri - Kansas City   
   [PUBLISHED] [Melloy, Author, with Smith, Chief Judge, and Erickson, 
   Circuit Judge] 
   Civil case. The district court did not abuse its discretion in denying 
   plaintiffs' motion to disqualify an expert witness; plaintiffs' prior 
   contact with the expert witness did not create a disqualifying conflict; 
   the parties had a single conference call and a series of emails, where the 
   expert neither performed work for plaintiffs, nor was formally engaged by 
   them, nor signed a confidentiality agreement, and these contacts did not 
   create the kind of confidential relationship that would disqualify the 
   expert from working with defendants.