Justice Louis York
In birth defects suit of Sean Reeps, due to his exposure to gasoline vapors during her pregnancy, Reeps and his mother moved for reargument or reconsideration of the court’s decision barring testimony of Drs. Frazier and Kramer. The court found that both experts did not cite to a single scientific publication that showed a causal link between exposure to gasoline vapors during pregnancy and birth defects found in Sean Reeps. Instead they claimed causal links between gasoline and developmental outcomes that had escaped other scientists. Nowhere in their initial reports did experts mention there were no epidemiological studies on the effect of in utero exposure to gasoline vapors and the kind of diseases found in Sean Reeps, or generally birth defects. The court found the experts referred to case reports which were not controlled epidemiological studies, and could not establish association in the statistical sense used in epidemiology. The court stated the two experts used a catch-all term the "weight of evidence" method as a fall-back solution when they did not find supporting epidemiological evidence. The court did not find that it had overlooked or misunderstood any of expert’s statements and denied the motion.
