Sara Lee Braun, Individually and as of the Estate of Norman Braun, Deceased v. Lorillard Incorporated and Hollingsworth & Vose Company

How courts have described this case

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• applying Daubert to expert testimony regarding methods of testing for the presence of asbestos in human tissues
• noting the potential abuse where experts shirk “the methods that they use when they are doing their regular professional work [in the course of] being paid to give an opinion helpful to one side of a lawsuit”
• \[T]he opinion evidence of reputable scientists is admissible . . . even if the particular methods . . . are not yet accepted as canonical.\
• “The plaintiff who knows that the defendant means to contest an issue that is germane to the prima facie case . . . must put in his evidence on the issue as part of his case in chief.”
• calling a deviation from a generally accepted method problematic

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