LYONDELL CHEMICAL CO. v. Occidental Chemical Corp.

How courts have described this case

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• noting that “Monte Carlo analysis is unreliable when injected with faulty inputs”
• noting that “Monte Carlo analysis is unreliable when injected with faulty inputs”
• acknowledging, and not disturbing, district court’s implicit decision that plaintiff could not pursue both remedies
• finding admissible expert testimony using a Monte Carlo analysis to calculate the volume of the defendant’s waste dumped at Turtle Bayou
• finding admissible expert testimony using a Monte Carlo analysis to calculate the volume of the defendant’s waste dumped at Turtle Bayou
• “[T]he offering of settlement evidence arising out of a shared factual nexus and bearing directly on present issues of liability between many of the same parties falls within Rule 408’s prohibition.”

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