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No Expert Do-Overs

Drug & Device Law

Plaintiffs will not be heard to argue that they “could have shored up their cases by other means had they known their expert testimony would be found inadmissible.” His inability to produce admissible expert testimony is due to his own actions, namely the failure of his proposed experts to test their alternatives. Weisgram v.

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Another Reason Why The FDA, Not Litigants, Approves Products

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Another of our posts quoted similar concerns raised by our clients in the pharmaceutical industry as the matter was being successfully appealed to the United States Supreme Court: The Fifth Circuit’s ruling threatens to stifle pharmaceutical innovation by disrupting industry’s reasonable investment-backed expectations. Buckman Co.

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Another RICOdiculous Decision

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We’ve discussed recently how a federal statute intended to allow suits against international terrorists has been misapplied as allowing suits against pharmaceutical companies. Takeda Pharmaceuticals Co. , 341 (2001). Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. , 3d 1243 (9th Cir. Plaintiffs Legal Committee , 531 U.S.

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Guest Post – More on Expert Gatekeeping in West Virginia

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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. CSX Transportation, Inc. , 2d 275, 305 (W.

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50-State Survey of State Court Decisions Supporting Expert-Related Judicial Gatekeeping

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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.

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The FDA and Feasible Alternative Designs

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151, 163-68 (2001)) (lengthy discussion of FDA regulatory process omitted). The court in Wolfe refused to impose a negligence duty on the defendant pharmaceutical company to develop and obtain FDA approval of the plaintiff’s non-FDA-approved alternative. His testimony is thus irrelevant and inadmissible. Ethicon, Inc. ,

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Zantac Chronicles – Concluding Chapters in the MDL

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Reliance on “animal data” – another notorious and frequent error common in unreliable expert testimony. Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp. , Relying on the grossly excessive ranitidine exposure lab tests previously excluded for their bizarre results and shoddy methodologies. at *167 (quoting Glastetter v. 3d 986, 991 (8th Cir.