Bonnie Joyce Rider v. Sandoz Pharmaceuticals

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that expert’s opinion was based on ″several scientifically unsupported ″leaps of faith’″
• noting that, although they are not mandatory, “epidemiological studies may be powerful evidence of causation”
• concluding that case reports by themselves were not reliable proof of causation
• noting that plaintiffs can prove causation via non-epidemiological evidence but holding the evidence in that case to be insufficient
• stating that extrapolations between drugs are impermissible unless reliable scientific evidence establishes the validity of the analogy
• noting that the Supreme Court in Kumho “made it clear that testimony based solely on the experience of an expert would not be admissible.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).