Hall v. Baxter Healthcare Corp.

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that a differential diagnosis “assumes that general causation has been proven for the list of possible causes it eliminates”
• finding that “case reports and case studies are universally regarded as an insufficient scientific basis for a conclusion regarding causation because case reports lack controls”; hence, they do not supply scientific knowledge upon which an opinion can be based under Daubert
• finding a Rule 403 analysis applicable but unnecessary in making its decision to exclude testimony
• setting forth in detail the technical advisors’ participation in the case, including the specific questions they were asked to answer
• rejecting differential diagnosis linking illness to breast implant because the analysis requires assumptions about general causation that were not established
• alleging silicone leakage from breast implants caused systemic illness of atypical connective tissue disease

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).