Best v. Lowe's Home Centers, Inc.

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• stating that a causation opinion based upon a reliable differential diagnosis may satisfy the requirements of Rule 702
• recognizing a Daubert motion as an avenue for challenging the reliability and admissibility of an expert opinion
• stating that even though doctor had never before administered test and result was only one point outside the range for malingering, he used a sufficiently reliable methodology and the potential problems were best probed by cross-examination
• explaining that the Rule 702 standard and the Daubert standard “attempts to strike a balance between a liberal admissibility standard for relevant evidence on the one hand and the need to exclude misleading ‘junk science’ on the other”
• stating that district courts have an obligation to exclude “junk science”
• finding plaintiff’s expert’s differential diagnosis reliable in ruling out nine of ten other potential causes for plaintiff’s anosmia

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).