In a high stakes lawsuit, an expert witness can often win a case by helping the court understand technical or scientific evidence—unless, that is, the court decides the expert isn’t worth hearing in the first place. That’s what happened this week when a judge, in a first for a crypto case, threw out evidence because a so-called expert’s opinion had “no reliable basis.”
The case in question involves a lesser known crypto project called Nano that issued tokens with the ticker XRB (unrelated to Ripple’s XRP). When hackers broke into an exchange storing XRB, token holders filed a class action suit accusing those behind the Nano project of securities fraud and other violations.
While most of the charges have been thrown out, a handful are still being disputed, which led lawyers for the XRB holders to file an expert report to support their claims. Unfortunately for the plaintiffs, the person they chose, a financial professional named David Weisberger, lacked the requisite expertise—so mu
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