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No Interlocutory Appeal Lies from a Pre-Trial Ruling on the Admissibility of Evidence Which Did Not Limit the Scope of the Issues or Theories of Liability to Be Tried

Defendant was intoxicated when her vehicle collided with plaintiff’s decedent’s vehicle.  Plaintiff, the administrator of decedent’s estate, sought to introduce expert testimony demonstrating that, based upon defendant’s blood-alcohol content six hours after the accident, she would have been visibly intoxicated and had a higher blood-alcohol content when she was served at defendant tavern.  The tavern moved to preclude the expert testimony and, after a Frye hearing, the court granted the motion.  The Third Department determined the court’s ruling on the evidentiary issue did not limit the scope of the issues or theories of liability to be tried and was not, therefore, appealable as of right or by permission. Appeal would have to wait until the trial is concluded:

It is well settled that “an order which merely determines the admissibility of evidence, even when made in advance of trial on motion papers, constitutes, at best, an advisory opinion which is neither appealable as of right nor by permission” … . Supreme Court precluded plaintiff from offering an expert opinion as to “the extrapolated blood alcohol content [and] the physiological condition” of [defendant] while she was at the tavern, crediting the testimony of [the tavern’s] expert that such an opinion could not be reliably drawn from the available proof. Regardless of whether Supreme Court abused its discretion in making that determination, it was plainly an evidentiary ruling that did not “limit[] the scope of the issues or the theories of liability to be tried” … . Indeed, counsel for plaintiff acknowledged at oral argument that the preclusion of the proffered expert evidence is not fatal to his claims and that a trial will occur even if the evidence is not allowed. Appellate review thus must wait until after trial, when the relevance of the evidence and the effect of the evidentiary ruling may be properly assessed … . Hurtado v Williams, 2015 NY Slip Op 04912, 3rd Dept 6-11-15

 

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