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By Colleen Murphy | May 3, 2024
"If we had the 'Ferreira' conference, which this court says is a 'backstop,' this would not have happened," said Christina Vassiliou Harvey of Lomurro Munson, who served as pro bono counsel to the plaintiff. "We would have avoided all of this if there was just a conference and an explanation."
6 minute read
By Cassandre Coyer | April 29, 2024
The Washington state ruling highlights the problems AI-enhanced video may face in court, especially on the heels of recent Federal Rules of Civil Procedure amendments emphasizing evidence reliability.
8 minute read
By Amanda Bronstad | April 17, 2024
U.S. District Judge Nancy Rosenstengel, who is overseeing the paraquat multidistrict litigation, found that Dr. Martin Wells, a biostatistician and epidemiologist at Cornell University, used unreliable methodologies in concluding that exposure to the pesticide increased the risks of getting Parkinson's disease.
5 minute read
By Joshua M. Robbins and Ross Garrett | April 11, 2024
"Courts have typically declined to force the government to use the MLAT process for defendants' benefit," write Joshua M. Robbins and Ross Garrett of Buchalter.
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By Elisa Reiter, Daniel Pollack and Jeffrey C. Siegel | April 9, 2024
"The presentation of expert mental health information to the court is essential, but such evidence ... is likely to draw objections," according to Elisa Reiter, Daniel Pollack and Jeffrey C. Siegel.
9 minute read
Delaware Business Court Insider
By Ellen Bardash | March 26, 2024
"The difficulty with valuing crypto assets as opposed to other assets is they have no inherent value," a bankruptcy judge observed.
4 minute read
By Jules Epstein | March 25, 2024
An expert with knowledge that jurors don't have should be permitted to testify when that knowledge will inform the decisionmaker and meets the basic relevance threshold.
5 minute read
By Quentin Brogdon | March 15, 2024
"An amendment to Federal Rule of Evidence 702 no doubt will raise the hurdles to be cleared by experts in the eyes of some federal judges, but the Committee Note accompanying the amendment should provide some comfort to the proponents of expert testimony," according to Quentin Brogdon of Crain Brogdon.
7 minute read
By Edward E. Neiger, Alexandra Robertson and Gregory Lawrence | March 8, 2024
This article discusses how, for multidistrict litigation (MDL) to move forward to trials, we must understand 'Daubert', Rule 702 and the role of the judge in determining the admissibility of expert testimony. It goes on to highlight recent updates in related Tylenol and Paraquat MDL cases.
6 minute read
By Alex Anteau | February 26, 2024
Raising the stakes, counsel for the excess insurance carrier was hired to sit on the trial where tensions were running high.
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