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Women, Medical Care, And Mass Tort Litigation, Joan E. Steinman
Women, Medical Care, And Mass Tort Litigation, Joan E. Steinman
Joan E. Steinman
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The Unanswered Questions Of Christopherson V. Allied Signal Corporation, Richard O. Faulk
The Unanswered Questions Of Christopherson V. Allied Signal Corporation, Richard O. Faulk
Richard Faulk
In Christophersen v. Allied-Signal Corp. , the Fifth Circuit sitting en banc announced a controversial new test for evaluating the admissibility of scientific evidence. An earlier panel decision reversed a summary judgment for the defendant chemical manufacturers, holding that the testimony of the plaintiffs' expert regarding cancer causation was not so fundamentally unreliable that it should be excluded from jury consideration. On rehearing en banc, a divided court disagreed with the panel decision and affirmed the district court's summary judgment rendered on behalf of the chemical manufacturers. In general, the court required experts to base their opinions upon facts which …