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· 8/3/2001

Katie Bonner, Esau Bonner v. Isp Technologies, Inc., Crawford & Company, Inc., Movant

Citations

  • 259 F.3d 924
  • 57 Fed. R. Serv. 15
  • 32 Envtl. L. Rep. (Envtl. Law Inst.) 20008
  • 2001 U.S. App. LEXIS 17252
  • 2001 WL 872976

How courts have described this case

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  • holding that even if a judge believes there are better grounds for some alternative conclusions, if there are good grounds for an expert's conclusion, it should be admitted
  • indicating that in some circumstances a temporal link is, alone, evidence of causation
  • noting the general rule and finding the expert’s subsequent reliance on case reports in addition to other facts reliable
  • affirming jury award in toxic tort case where “the immediacy of [plaintiff’s] acute symptoms to her exposure” was sufficient to establish causation
  • affirming jury award in toxic tort case where “the immediacy of [plaintiff’s] acute symptoms to her exposure” was sufficient to establish causation
  • rejecting a defendant’s argument that an expert’s testimony regarding causation should be excluded because it was “not yet established as fact in the scientific community.”

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Judges: Wollman, Hansen, Barnes

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