daubert-standard

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25-874 Johnson & Johnson Consumer Inc. v. Narguess Noohi, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated Ninth Circuit 2026-01-22 Pending civil-procedure class-certification daubert-standard evidentiary-standards expert-testimony federal-rules-of-evidence Whether expert testimony must be admissible under Federal Rule of Evidence 702 and the framework enunciated in Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals,…
25-750 Calvin M. Costanza v. Florida Marine Transporters, LLC Louisiana 2025-12-23 Pending causation-standard daubert-standard jones-act maritime-law scientific-evidence toxic-tort Whether under the Jones Act's relaxed causation standard, a plaintiff must meet Daubert requirements for scientific causation in toxic tort claims
24-1240 Unkechaug Indian Nation, et al. v. Amanda Lefton, Commissioner, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, et al. Second Circuit 2025-06-05 Denied daubert-standard due-process expert-testimony gatekeeping-obligation in-camera-review summary-judgment Whether the District Court violated Petitioners' due process rights by granting summary judgment without fulfilling its Daubert gatekeeping obligation…
24-7272 Carlos Barragan Leon v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-05-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP daubert-standard evidence-reliability expert-testimony federal-rules-of-evidence kumho-tire translation-methodology Did the district court's failure to make the required reliability finding pursuant to Federal Rule of Evidence 702 of the methodology and principles u…
24-580 Richard Cotromano, et al. v. RTX Corporation Eleventh Circuit 2024-11-26 Denied Response Waived abuse-of-discretion daubert-standard dose-reconstruction environmental-exposure expert-testimony gatekeeping-function Whether the abuse of discretion standard requires the Circuit Courts to assess whether a trial court performed its gatekeeping function adequately rat…
24-576 Nutramax Laboratories, Inc., et al. v. Justin Lytle, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-11-25 Denied Amici (2) circuit-split class-certification daubert-standard expert-testimony predominance-requirement rule-23 When a plaintiff seeking to certify a class relies on an expert to establish that classwide issues predominate, must the expert testimony satisfy the …
23-7556 Nathan O. Beal v. Washington Washington 2024-05-23 Denied IFP criminal-procedure criminal-trials daubert-standard due-process evidence-rule expert-testimony federal-evidence-rule firearm-ballistics frye-standard scientific-evidence trial-procedure Should Washington State use the Daubert standard for criminal trials, or is the Frye standard sufficient?
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…
22-279 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?
21-7309 Jaime Calderon, aka Jaime Arredonde, aka Jaime Rene Calderon v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-03-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights daubert-standard due-process evidence expert-testimony gatekeeping-function judicial-reliability kumho-tire law-enforcement law-enforcement-experts reliability Whether district courts have a duty to assess the reliability of law enforcement officers testifying as experience-based experts
21-1100 3M Company, et al. v. George Amador Eighth Circuit 2022-02-09 Denied Amici (6) appellate-review daubert-standard daubert-v-merrell-dow evidence-admissibility expert-testimony federal-rule-of-evidence-702 general-electric-v-joiner judicial-gatekeeping pending-mdl reliability-threshold standard-of-review Whether the Eighth Circuit's standard of initial admissibility for expert testimony conflicts with this Court's precedents and Federal Rule of Evidenc…
21-277 Betty E. Smith, as Attorney-In-Fact for Paul C. Smith, Individually and on Behalf of the ERISA-Covered Plan v. HPR Clinic, LLC, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-08-25 Denied daubert-standard district-court evidentiary-procedure expert-testimony federal-rules-of-evidence judicial-appointment methodology methodology-standards rule-706 Whether an expert appointed by agreement of the parties by a District Court under Federal Rule of Evidence 706 must employ methodology that is general…
21-241 Monsanto Company v. Edwin Hardeman Ninth Circuit 2021-08-18 Denied CVSGAmici (8)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) daubert-standard epa-approval expert-testimony failure-to-warn federal-insecticide-fungicide-and-rodenticide-act fifra-preemption herbicide-regulation preemption state-law-claims Whether FIFRA preempts a state-law failure-to-warn claim
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…
20-7773 Ganiyu Ayinla Jaiyeola v. Toyota Motor Corporation, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-04-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion circuit-split civil-procedure daubert-standard discovery-deadline expert-report inter-circuit-split intra-circuit-split motion-procedure sanction-standard sanctions Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit created an intra-circuit and inter-circuit split by wrongly deciding that the Distric…
20-998 Mama Jo’s, Inc., dba Berries v. Sparta Insurance Company Eleventh Circuit 2021-01-26 Denied Amici (1) all-risk-insurance all-risk-policy causation-expert construction-damage daubert-standard direct-physical-loss expert-testimony insurance-coverage Whether construction dust and debris damage to covered property constitutes 'direct physical loss' under an all-risk insurance policy
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
20-528 Nicholas S. Baas v. United States Armed Forces 2020-10-20 Denied Response Waived confrontation-clause court-martial daubert-standard due-process scientific-evidence sixth-amendment unanimous-verdict Whether a military servicemember's Sixth Amendment and due process rights are violated by allowing a conviction for non-capital offenses by a general …
20-5633 Darren M. Rowe v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2020-09-09 Denied IFP actual-innocence daubert-standard district-court due-process evidence-analysis expert-testimony habeas-corpus judicial-discretion legal-error new-evidence schlup-v-delo standard-of-review Whether the district court committed legal error when it determined that the newly presented evidence does not qualify for consideration under the act…
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…
19-7149 Guillermo Herrera v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-01-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP admissibility circuit-split daubert-standard daubert-v-merrell-dow expert-testimony eyewitness-identification federal-rules-of-evidence jury-instructions scientific-evidence Whether expert testimony on eyewitness identification should be treated differently than other expert testimony
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…
19-216 Harold Persaud v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-08-19 Denied Response Waived certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure daubert-standard district-court-opinion district-court-review due-process expert-testimony habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judgment-of-conviction merits-review motion-to-vacate standard-of-review Whether Reasonable Jurists Could Debate the Denial of Petitioner's Motion to Vacate and Set Aside his Judgment of Conviction
18-9446 Davon Kelly Bennett v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-05-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination custodial-interrogation daubert-standard due-process evidence expert-witness-testimony motion-to-suppress rule-404b sixth-amendment Whether the District Court deprived Petitioner of his right to confront witnesses
18-8776 Tam Le v. Louisiana Louisiana 2019-04-10 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5)IFP constitutional-rights daubert-standard due-process expert-testimony fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel non-unanimous-jury sixth-amendment Whether Mr. Le was convicted by a non-unanimous jury in violation of his rights under the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments
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…
18-7780 Joseph Lemoine v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2019-02-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof burden-of-proof-beyond-reasonable-doubt constitutional-rights daubert-standard due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel essential-elements-of-offense expert-witness fourteenth-amendment reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment sufficiency-of-evidence Whether reasonable jurists could argue that the State failed to meet its burden of proof beyond reasonable doubt
18-7327 Trevor Johnson v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2019-01-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP aggravated-rape Batson-Violation constitutional-rights daubert-standard Denial-of-Motion-to-Suppress expert-testimony first-fourth-fourteenth-amendments fourteenth-amendment insufficient-evidence jury-verdict Non-Unanimous-Verdict reasonable-doubt Unreliable-'Expert'-Testimony unreliable-expert-testimony Violation-of-Telecommunications-Act whether-reasonable-jurists-would-debate-that-the-t whether-reasonable-jurists-would-find-that-the-tri Whether reasonable jurist would find that the State failed to prove beyond a reasonable doubt, every essential dement of the offense that Mr. Johnson …
18-675 Lisa M. West v. Missouri Missouri 2018-11-23 Denied Response Waived abuse-of-discretion admissibility conviction-and-sentence criminal-appeal daubert-review daubert-standard evidence-admissibility expert-witness judicial-review missouri-law scientific-testimony standard-of-review trial-court-discretion Whether this court should require a de novo review of the trial court's handling of scientific testimony to determine whether Daubert v. Merrell Dow P…
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…