United States ex rel. Alexandrovich v. Commissioner of Immigration at Port of New York

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• holding that abuse of discretion standard applied to determinations made by the district court concerning Daubert test
• holding that epidemiological studies were not necessary to provide causal link between acetaminophen and liver damage in a person who regularly consumed alcohol, because the methodology underlying the expert’s conclusion was sound
• recognizing “epidemiological studies are not necessarily required to prove causation,” but a proposed expert must show “the methodology employed . . . in reaching his or her conclusion is sound”
• describing the district court’s discretion to exclude evidence of notice under Rule 403 and instruct the jury regarding such evidence
• permitting treating physician to render an opinion that combining alcohol with therapeutic doses of acetaminophen caused liver disease in light of “medical community’s daily use of the same methodologies in diagnosing patients”
• noting the Daubert factors are not “a rigid test or checklist _”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).