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· 3/17/1997

DURAN BY DURAN v. Cullinan

Citations

  • 677 N.E.2d 999
  • 286 Ill. App. 3d 1005
  • 222 Ill. Dec. 465

How courts have described this case

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

  • “the principal issue at stake here is the scientific community’s general acceptance of the extrapolation technique employed by the plaintiffs’ experts”
  • methodology of extrapolating data from various studies showing oral contraceptives to have a teratogenic effect, i.e., resulting in a deformed fetus, was generally accepted under Frye
  • “the principal issue at stake here is the scientific community’s general acceptance of the extrapolation technique employed by the plaintiffs’ experts”
  • method­ology of extrap­olating data from various studies showing oral contra­cep­tives to have a teratogenic effect, i.e. , result­ing in a deformed fetus, was gener­al­ly accept­ed under Frye

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Judges: Thomas

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