Recent Daubert Challenges to Experts in Environmental Litigation

in dealing with the expert phase of a lawsuit. For example, a lawsuit involving alleged environmental contamination of soil, groundwater, or surface waters may ...

Reliability Is the Gauge: Recent Daubert Challenges to Experts in ...

Environmental litigators face unique challenges in dealing with the expert phase of a lawsuit. For example, a lawsuit involving alleged environmental ...

This article provides a review of recent decisions where the opinions of environmental experts, from disciplines mentioned above, have been the ...

Daubert Challenges Based on Expert's Lack of Qualifications

Trial courts continue to exclude expert witnesses based upon a lack of qualifications. Thirty years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court decided the ...

Recent Rulings and Examples of Daubert Challenges

... professionals to be aware of the. Page 3. Page 4. current standards for expert opinions in environmental litigation in both federal and state courts. Our ...

Reliability Is the Gauge: Recent Daubert Challenges to Experts in ...

Environmental litigators face unique challenges in dealing with the expert phase of a lawsuit. This article, reproduced with permission from the ...

Update on Challenges to Expert Witnesses - Susman Godfrey L.L.P.

Although a ruling on a Daubert motion can accelerate settlement negotiations or a ruling on summary judgment, recent data show that resolution of a case is less ...

environmental issues & daubert challenges in recent litigation

... experts' opinions were barred. Suggestions are provided for addressing operational and legal issues, including Daubert challenges and credible assessments. ###

CLIMATE CHANGE SCIENCE AND THE DAUBERT STANDARD

391. Page 2. 392. WM. & MARY ENVTL. L. & POL'Y REV. [Vol. 44:391 various justiciability challenges, plaintiffs' expert testimony supporting its claims will ...

Daubert Challenges in Environmental Litigation | CLE Webinar

The panel will summarize developments related to expert-witness testimony in the most highly-contentious environmental disputes, and provide ...

Deposing Expert Witnesses in Environmental Litigation

The New Jersey Supreme Court modified the appellate divi- sion's opinion, permitting an even broader standard of admission for expert testimony in toxic tort ...

Avoiding the Talismanic Effect of Unfounded Expert Testimony

As the U.S. Supreme Court warned in Daubert, even specious expert testimony “can be both powerful and quite misleading because of the difficulty in evaluating ...

Daubert challenges to expert testimony: Legal overview and best ...

set forth several factors for judicial consideration in evaluating admissibility of scientific evidence. ... Under Daubert factors, expert opinion is admissible ...

Special Pre-Release! Newly Updated “Rochkind/Daubert” Section in ...

In August 2020, the Maryland Supreme Court ended years of what it called “jurisprudential drift” away from its old Frye/Reed standard for expert ...

Amendments to Federal Rule 702, Now in Effect - Proskauer Rose LLP

Last year we predicted that these revisions would necessarily shift practitioners' approaches to Daubert challenges and the use of experts at ...

Frye, Daubert, and the Ongoing Crisis of “Junk Science” in

criminal evidence, courts faced a new evidentiary challenge—toxic tort litigation. ... of asserted expert testimony, civil defendants win their Daubert ...

An Update on Seismicity & Other Health and Safety Issues in Recent ...

... Issues in Recent Shale Oil and Gas Litigation and the Successful Daubert Challenges of Experts ... Lead Engineer and Environmental Expert i2M Associates ...

Expert Evidence in Environmental Claims - Miller Thomson LLP

We review some more recent American case law involving novel science in environmental claims and see whether these rulings provide guidance to judges in making ...

Climate Change Science and the Daubert Standard

3 If these cases survive various justiciability challenges, plaintiffs' expert testimony supporting its claims will likely be challenged under ...

Raising the Bar: Missouri's New Daubert Law - Segal McCambridge

Joiner, for example, the Supreme Court held that a judge may exclude expert testimony when logical gaps appear between an expert's conclusion and the evidence ...