Aventis Pasteur, Inc. v. Skevofilax

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• holding that “a failure to consider the proper legal standard in reaching a decision constitutes an abuse of discretion”
• noting that expert testimony on the link between vaccines and autism would have to pass the Frye-Reed test before it could be admitted into evidence
• noting that expert testimony on the link between vaccines and autism would have to pass the Frye-Reed test before it could be admitted into evidence
• noting that an expert’s medical opinion will not be admissible unless it is generally accepted as reliable in the expert’s particular field
• noting that “where the record so reveals, a failure to consider the proper legal standard in reaching a decision constitutes an abuse of discretion”
• stating that judges are presumed to know the law and apply it, even absent express consideration

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).