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2023) (remote trialtestimony cannot be compelled beyond Rule 45’s 100-mile limit on subpoenas) ( here ); Carson v. They excluded bogus expert testimony under Fed. As a matter of science, the purported link was imaginary, as discussed at great length in one of the many excellent Zantac ( 2022+4 ) MDL opinions.
While Frye was seen as a high bar at the start, by the 1980s, a cadre of practitioners of the ancient art of junk science were routinely permitted to offer medical causation opinions at trial despite general causation being anything but generally accepted. The only thing missing was accusing the defendants of buying the science.
The questionable allegations of that single complaint thus effectively trumped many years of the FDA’s science-based decision-making. There’s no science to back any of the allegations up – as demonstrated by the masterful (and even longer) take down of nearly identical substantive allegations in the Zantac ( 2022+4 ) MDL.
702 was (at the time – more on this below) identical to the Federal Rule, the Court stated “we believe that Daubert is directed at situations where the scientific or technical basis for the expert testimony cannot be judicially noticed and a hearing must be held to determine its reliability. 2013) (citation and quotation marks omitted). “We.
We think that they can, and for a state (like Pennsylvania and a number of others) that still follows the “ Frye ” standard looking to the “general acceptance” of expert testimony as the touchstone to admissibility, a Rule 702 state-law equivalent might look something like this: Rule 702. E.g. , Walsh v. BASF Corp. , 3d 446, 461 (Pa.
She prevailed at trial against one of the manufacturers and lost to the other. Reading between the lines, it looks to us that the court permitted the plaintiff side experts (one for materials science, the other for medical causation) to testify beyond their proper scope. The losing manufacturer appealed and lost again.
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Use of “results-based,” “conclusion-oriented,” and “situational science” methods. That is the antithesis of reliable science.”), 146. Reliance on “animal data” – another notorious and frequent error common in unreliable expert testimony. at 83 (citation and quotation marks omitted). at *131-32.
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In Wood, the plaintiffs moved to exclude testimony by the defense regulatory expert, while the defense moved to exclude or limit materials science and medical causation experts. The plaintiff argued that such testimony was irrelevant and confusing, because the 510(k) clearance had nothing to do with safety.
[B]ecause the opinions in [the expert’s] report pertain only to transvaginal implantation, [the] testimony would be unhelpful to a jury. Accordingly the court grants [the] motion to exclude [the expert’s] testimony.” So far, so good. citation omitted). But the court also said this – the first of many similar comments: “. [D]isputes
at 287 (citing transcript of expert’s testimony). [A]t A]t first blush, [the expert’s] testimony. No other witness offered testimony on these unidentified standards. An excellent example is the Sherman case, which involved junk science causation testimony in what we call a “toxic soup” chemical exposure case.
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