Schachtman Law

As with any potential toxic exposure, the dose and duration of exposure of asbestos matter.

Appellate advocates are limited to trial court records.

Both in acetaminophen litigation and in performative political assertion, the Prada Review has loomed large.

Most medico-legal controversies over causation resolve in the pages of medical journals and within the walls of state and federal courthouses.

INTRODUCTION Two weeks ago, the Second Circuit reversed the summary judgment entered by Judge Denise Cote, in the acetaminophen autism litigation.

In 2010, almost 30 years after Ferebee was decided, the Solicitor General cited the case in an amicus brief before the Supreme Court case, in Matrixx Iniatives, Inc. v.

The infamous Ferebee decision is certainly a contender to be a Dred Scott decision involving scientific evidence,[1] by declaring that science has no validity issues that the law is bound to respect.[2] The decision is often cited for its dictum, written…

For those of us who litigate health effects claims, either as pursuers or defenders, the pathology of science is often as important and interesting as pristine methodology.

Over a decade ago, I wrote a post about the American Public Health Association (APHA) and its position papers opposing the Daubert regime of gatekeeping the validity of expert witness opinion testimony.

Given the outsized role that IARC can sometimes take in litigation and regulation, lawyers and judges should pay some attention to, and give some critical thought about, how the Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence addresses IARC’s classifications and…