Legal Opinion
Cavallo v. Star Enterprise
District Court, E.D. Virginia
Decided July 10, 1995No. Civ. A. 94-1499-APublishedCited by 84 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
ELLIS, District Judge.
In this toxic tort case, the Court must exercise its “gatekeeping responsibility” to assess whether Plaintiffs proffered expert opinions on causation are admissible under Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc., - U.S. -, 113 S.Ct. 2786, 125 L.Ed.2d 469 (1993). Plaintiff here alleges chronic injury from exposure to aviation jet fuel (“AvJet”) vapors, and like many toxic tort cases, the central dispute is causation. Specifically, the question presented is whether the opinions of two experts that Plaintiffs exposure to AvJet caused her various…
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