Product Liability & Mass Torts Digest
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June 3, 2024
|3 min read
Paraquat Litigation Gets in the Weeds of Expert Reliability
The Southern District of Illinois's decision in In re Paraquat Products Liability Litigation underscores the critical importance of rigorous, transparent, and repeatable expert methodologies in court. The exclusion of plaintiffs' causation expert due to methodological flaws, resulting in a summary judgment for the defendants, highlights the escalating judicial scrutiny on expert reliability following the recent amendments to Rule 702.
June 29, 2022
|4 min read
Don’t Say Daubert – Reviving Rule 702
For years, federal practitioners have referred to that standard as the “Daubert” standard, for the Supreme Court’s seminal decision in Daubert v. Merrill Dow Pharmaceuticals, 509 U.S. 579 (1993). Daubert made clear that judges must act as gatekeepers when it comes to expert testimony and articulated various factors that they are to consider when deciding whether particular expert testimony is admissible. Defendants generally like Daubert because it effectively raised the bar for expert testimony, making it harder for plaintiffs to rely on junk science to make their case.