General Electric Co. v. Joiner: Lighting up the Post-Daubert landscape

Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 497-503

  Grudzinskas Jr , Albert J ^a,b   Appelbaum, Kenneth L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UMMC WSH 8C ^*  (United States)

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CANCER; CANCER RISK; COURT; LAW SUIT; LEGAL LIABILITY; REVIEW; UNITED STATES;

BIPHENYL COMPOUNDS; EXPERT TESTIMONY; FUNGICIDES, INDUSTRIAL; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; SOCIAL JUSTICE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0345404418     PISSN: 10936793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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1. 118 S. Ct. 512 (1997)
2. 509 U.S. 579 (1993)
3. 118 S. Ct. at 516, citing 864 F. Supp. 1310, 1326 (ND GA 1994)
4. 118 S. Ct. at 516, citing 78 F.3d 524, 529 (11th Cir. 1996)
5. 118 S. Ct. at 516, citing 78 F.3d at 533
6. 118 S. Ct. at 517, citing Old Chief v. United States, 519 U.S. 172, n.1 (1997) and United States v. Abel, 469 U.S. 45, 54 (1984)
7. "A discretion exercised to an end or purpose not justified by and clearly against reason and evidence. Unreasonable departure from considered precedents and settled judicial customs, constituting error of law." Beck v. Wings Field, Inc., 122 F.2d 114, 116, 117 (3d Cir. 1941)
8. 509 U.S. 579 (1993)
9. 99 U.S. 645, 658 (1879)
10. 488 U.S. 153, 172 (1988)
11. 469 U.S. at 54
12. 118 S. Ct. at 517, citing 509 U.S. at 589 (footnote omitted)
13. 118 S. Ct. at 518, citing General Electric v. Joiner, 864 F.Supp. at 1324
14. 118 S. Ct. at 518
15. 118 S. Ct. at 518, quoting 509 U.S. at 595
16. An assertion whose authority is based solely upon the individual who made it and not upon precedent
17. 118 S. Ct. at 519, citing Turpin v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc., 959 F.2d 1349, 1360 (6th Cir.), cert, denied 506 U.S. 826 (1992)
18. 118 S. Ct. at 520
19. 118 S. Ct. at 523
20. 118 S. Ct. at 523
21. See Nat'l L.J., Dec. 29, 1997-Jan. 5, 1998, at A10
22. Scientific law of unintended consequences, Nat'l L. J., Jan. 19, 1998, at A22
23. Frye v. United States, 293 F. 1013 (D.C. Cir. 1923)
24. Fed. R. Evid. 702
25. Fed. R. Evid. 703
26. 509 U.S. at 592
27. 118 S. Ct. at 518
28. Moore v. Ashland Chemical Corp., 126 F.3d 679 (5th Cir. 1997)
29. McKendall v. Crown Control Corp., 122 F.3d 803 (9th Cir. 1997)
30. Carmichael v. Samyang Tire, Inc., 131 F.3d 1433 (11th Cir. 1997)