daubert

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
23-5524 Michael Jones, Jason Reed, and Shaun Myers v. United States Seventh Circuit 2023-09-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof daubert daubert-standard dual-role-testimony due-process evidence expert-witness fifth-amendment standard-of-review Whether the Seventh Circuit applied the wrong standard of review and erroneously shifted the burden of proof by failing to review the Daubert error de…
23-5489 Lonnie Dee Brown v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2023-08-30 Denied IFP appellate-review criminal-procedure daubert daubert-standard evidence expert-testimony ineffective-assistance kumho-tire standard-of-review strickland-test Whether the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals' review of trial courts decisions to admit or exclude expert testimony comport with the United States S…
22-6331 Lance Green v. United States Third Circuit 2022-12-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment 6th-amendment-confrontation confrontation-clause daubert dna-evidence due-process firearm-possession sixth-amendment speedy-trial-act 6th-amendment-confrontation,due-process,speedy-trial-act,6th-amendment,daubert,dna-evidence
22-279 Norine Cave v. Suvidha Sachdeva, et al. Georgia 2022-09-23 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 14th-amendment daubert daubert-standard directed-verdict discovery discovery-requirements due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment Whether a litigant's fundamental right to a fair trial is unjustly deprived by a directed verdict preceding discovery and Daubert requirements
22-5308 Lashawn Lewis v. New York New York 2022-08-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure daubert daubert-standard due-process expert-testimony frye-standard scientific-evidence Was Petitioner deprived of Due Process where the court denied her any meaningful opportunity to contest the use of junk science at her trial?
21-7870 Greg Cantoni v. United States Second Circuit 2022-05-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-split circuit-court-standards daubert discovery-violation expert-testimony federal-rules-of-evidence harmless-error jencks-act prosecutorial-discretion Which standard must be applied to determine whether a Jencks Act violation is prejudicial or harmless?
21-5301 Justin Lane Foust v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-08-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP daubert daubert-standard expert-testimony federal-rules-of-evidence forensic-evidence general-acceptance handwriting-analysis handwriting-comparison judicial-reliability kumho-tire scientific-methodology Can the admissibility of expert testimony about the supposed author of a forged writing be upheld on a record that shows little (if anything) more tha…
21-5032 Paris Poe v. United States Seventh Circuit 2021-07-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP daubert daubert-standard evidence evidence-admissibility expert-testimony feature-comparison federal-rules-of-evidence reliability-standard scientific-methodology scientific-reliability subjective-feature-comparison Whether Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and Federal Rule of Evidence 702 require lower courts to properly analyze the admissibility of ev…
20-533 Jeffrey Boudreau, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Wendy Boudreau v. Shaw's Supermarkets, Inc. First Circuit 2020-10-22 Denied Response Waived business-invitee daubert daubert-standard expert-testimony foreseeability kumho premises-liability rule-702 summary-judgment Whether foreseeability of harm is a factual issue for the jury in a premises liability case
19-7652 Steven Craig Whyte v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-02-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP common-sense common-sense-topics daubert daubert-standard drug-enforcement drug-experts evidence-admissibility expert-testimony jury-instructions kumho-tire Whether this Court's Daubert/Kumho Tire jurisprudence bars presentation of law-enforcement agent 'drug experts' testifying regarding plain-English exc…
19-7235 Trevon Gross v. United States Second Circuit 2020-01-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP daubert due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-evidence hearsay prosecutorial-discretion Should the Government be able to convert an expert witness into a summary witness?
19-6277 Mario Ruvalcaba-Garcia v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-10-16 Denied IFP appellate-review circuit-split daubert daubert-standard evidentiary-reliability expert-testimony harmless-error judicial-gatekeeping make-initial-daubert-decision relevance-and-reliability remand remand-for-new-trial standard-of-review When a trial court errs by failing to exercise its 'gatekeeping' role of determining whether expert testimony is relevant and reliable under Daubert v…
18-1153 Timothy J. Rizzo v. Applied Materials, Inc., et al. Second Circuit 2019-03-06 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 7th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights daubert daubert-standard due-process expert-testimony scientific-evidence seventh-amendment standard-of-review summary-judgment Whether the courts below erroneously abused their discretion in dismissing Rizzo's experts, whether the courts below erroneously held a different stan…
18-7971 Kilunnun Adyden Chivoski v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-02-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP admissibility admissibility-threshold child-sexual-abuse daubert daubert-standard expert-testimony expert-witness gate-keeping-hearing kumho-tire peer-review psychological-testimony Should a district court be required to conduct a hearing under Daubert to consider the admissibility of expert testimony when the proffered expert adm…
18-7505 Demian Pina v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-01-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP confrontation-clause daubert due-process ecpa ecpa-violation electronic-surveillance evidence-admissibility fourth-amendment kyllo search-and-seizure speedy-trial Does the use of computer/internet surveillance technology violate the defendant's Fourth Amendment rights?
18-327 N. K., an Infant, By His Mother and Natural Guardian, Tanja Bruestle-Kumra v. Abbott Laboratories Second Circuit 2018-09-13 Denied alternative-causation alternative-cause causation-opinion daubert daubert-standard daubert-v-merrell-dow differential-diagnosis expert-testimony expert-testimony-admissibility federal-rule-of-evidence-702 genetic-causation genetic-testing rule-702 Whether additional genetic testing is required to eliminate a possible alternative cause when an expert has completed a differential diagnosis and exp…
18-213 H. Richard Austin v. Hanover Insurance Company, aka Massachusetts Bay Insurance Company Eighth Circuit 2018-08-17 Denied appellate-procedure circuit-split civil-procedure collateral-estoppel court-interpretation daubert daubert-standard en-banc-review fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court homeowners-insurance judicial-interpretation judicial-procedure motion-for-summary-judgment res-judicata sanctions summary-order Whether an initial appellate 'Summary Order' is the definitive source regarding the subject matter contested, or if courts in the same dispute can ado…
18-5546 Billie Wayne Coble v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-08-10 Denied IFP capital-case capital-sentencing constitutional-rights daubert daubert-standard due-process eighth-amendment expert-testimony future-dangerousness reliability Whether the Fifth Circuit and Texas courts improperly applied Barefoot v. Estelle to categorically foreclose claims that unreliable expert testimony o…