Pluck v. BP Oil Pipeline Co.

OPINION

JULIA SMITH GIBBONS, Circuit Judge.

In this toxic tort case alleging exposure to benzene, plaintiffs-appellants Sue and Ray Pluck appeal the district court’s order granting summary judgment to defendantappellee BP Oil Pipeline Company (“BP”). The Plucks challenge the district court’s grant of BP’s motion in limine to exclude the testimony of their specific-causation expert, Dr. James Dahlgren, as unreliable under Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc., 509 U.S. 579, 113 S.Ct. 2786, 125 L.Ed.2d 469 (1993). They also argue that the district court should have admitted Dahlgren’s…