By Sulaiman Abdur-Rahman | September 6, 2024
U.S. District Judge Leonie M. Brinkema denied Google's motion to exclude lay opinion testimony from its advertising antitrust bench trial. This includes testimony from Andrew Casale, president and CEO of Index Exchange, and testimony from Benneaser "Ben" John, vice president of engineering at Microsoft.
By Jimmy Hoover | June 20, 2024
In its 6-3 ruling, the Supreme Court rejected the argument that such testimony violated Federal Rule of Evidence 704(b), which prohibits experts from testifying about a defendant's mental state when such knowledge is an element of the crime.
By Sulaiman Abdur Rahman | May 20, 2024
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit reinstated a $523,000 jury verdict awarded to Virginia landowners who lost more than 8 acres of land to a gas pipeline construction company invoking eminent domain, reversing a lower court judgment.
By Amanda Bronstad | May 10, 2024
Their 2020 study found 75 unnamed mesothelioma patients had no exposures to asbestos other than cosmetic talcum powder, but Johnson & Johnson has insisted those claims are false as to six or more of the individuals.
By Amanda Bronstad | April 17, 2024
U.S. District Judge Nancy Rosenstengel, who is overseeing the paraquat multidistrict litigation, found that Dr. Martin Wells, a biostatistician and epidemiologist at Cornell University, used unreliable methodologies in concluding that exposure to the pesticide increased the risks of getting Parkinson's disease.
By Amanda Bronstad | February 1, 2024
Johnson & Johnson subpoenaed records concerning plaintiffs' expert Dr. Jacqueline Moline and a partnership involving attorney Andy Birchfield and one of its former lawyers.
By Ellen Bardash | October 31, 2023
The update to Rule 702, set to go into effect officially on Dec. 1, has raised the issue of whether it's a long overdue way to hold judges to an evidentiary standard they should have been following for decades or if it encourages them to cross over into the jurors' domain.
By Amanda Bronstad | Ross Todd | Ellen Bardash | October 19, 2023
At a Sept. 6 status hearing, lawyers on both sides of the talcum powder lawsuits against Johnson & Johnson debated the impact of the upcoming amendments to Federal Rule 702 of Evidence.
By Avalon Zoppo | September 27, 2023
Company's witness based his damages projections on expertise derived as a certified public accountant, appeals court says.
By Amanda Bronstad | May 19, 2023
U.S. Magistrate Judge Valerie Figueredo, in New York, denied a demand from defendants to disclose of 33 individuals in plaintiff's expert Dr. Jacqueline Moline's 2019 report, used in talc cases nationwide to link cosmetic talc to mesothelioma.
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