· 4/18/2002
Thomas Pipitone, and Bonnie Pipitone v. Biomatrix, Inc., Biomatrix, Inc.
Citations
- 288 F.3d 239
- 58 Fed. R. Serv. 1123
- 2002 U.S. App. LEXIS 7102
- 2002 WL 500290
How courts have described this case
Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.
- concluding that a treating physician’s opinion regarding causation was irrelevant under Daubert because doctor’s opinion was “perfectly equivocal”
- holding that jury was entitled to hear expert testimony and decide whether to accept or reject it after considering whether predicate facts on which expert relied were accurate
- holding that jury was entitled to hear expert testimony and decide whether to accept or reject it after considering whether predicate facts on which expert relied were accurate
- holding that jury was entitled to hear expert testimony and decide whether to accept or reject it after considering whether predicate facts on which expert relied were accurate
- stating that “perfectly equivocal opinion does not make any fact more or less probable and is irrelevant under the Federal Rules of Evidence”
- noting that “plaintiff may prove causation by establishing ‘with reasonable certainty that all other alternatives are impossible’” (emphasis omitted
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Judges: Garwood, Jolly, Davis
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