In an effort to stop the continued divergence in approaches to Daubert rulings among U.S. circuit courts, ATRA filed an
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On August 28, 2020, Maryland joined the supermajority of states and the federal government in precluding “junk science” from corrupting
Points of LightAt long last, New Jersey will no longer be considered an evidentiary outlier that permits plaintiff’s to bring meritless cases
Points of LightTroubling trends in Twin Cities courtrooms, unprincipled actions by Minnesota’s attorney general and multiple vetoes of common sense reforms by
Judicial HellholesThe Florida Supreme Court’s plaintiff-favoring majority yesterday maintained its reputation for wholly disregarding the authority of duly elected state lawmakers with a 4-2 decision, refusing to adopt a 2013 reform law that raised the Sunshine State’s standard for expert testimony to that of all federal courts and 39 other state court systems
Judicial HellholesMissouri’s newly minted, reform-minded Governor Eric Greitens delivered his first State of the State address to a joint session of the legislature in Jefferson City yesterday, declaring his commitment to enacting critical tort reforms as a means to improving both the state’s civil justice system and its economic prospects
Judicial Hellholes, Points of LightJoining several state trial and appellate courts in doing so, a unanimous Florida appeals court yesterday embraced a more exacting standard for expert testimony which, believe it or not, may yet be struck down by the Sunshine State’s notoriously plaintiff-friendly Supreme Court
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