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Expert’s Results-Driven Methodology Leads to Exclusion and Summary Judgment in Paraquat MDL

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An expert witness is not supposed to pick a desired result and then reverse engineer inputs and methods that reach that result. As the Ninth Circuit observed 30 years ago, “[c]oming to a firm conclusion first and then doing...more

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Texas Supreme Court Refocuses on Causation and Affirms Summary Judgment in Herbicide Drift Case

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The question of whether a particular application of herbicide on one property caused damage on another’s property requires expert testimony. When a plaintiff claims that herbicide drift caused reduced crop yields, it is not...more

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