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· 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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