Daubert V. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals Case Study

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The case Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals Inc. is about two kids, Jason Daubert and Eric Schuller, who were born with a major birth defect. Their parents sued Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals because they thought it was because of the drug Bendectin that they sold them caused the birth defects. Merrell Dow experts submitted documents that shown that there were no previous link between Bendectin and birth defects. The Daubert test is a nonexclusive checklist for trial courts in assessing the reliability of scientific expert testimony.

One of the factors that show that expert testimony is sufficiently reliable is whether experts are “proposing to testify about matters growing naturally and directly out of research they have conducted independent

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