”[11] And they wind up telling us vacuously that if the relevant epidemiology showed a small effect size, such as a two percent increased risk (RR = 1.02), then it would be unclear “how any animal data could cause one to substantially alter the best estimate of a human effect to reach a more-likely-than-not threshold. [read post]

Georgia RR Bank & Trust , 253 Ga. 596, 600 (322 SE2d 870) (1980)), was to list successive contingent beneficiaries: if the City did not take the bequest, it was to be offered to the historical society; if the historical society was no longer in existence, the bequest was to be offered to the society’s successor; if the historical society or its successor declined the bequest or did not exist, the bequest was to go to "a comparable charitable entity. [read post]

Discovery Beyond the Report and the Deposition The lesson of the cases interpreting Rule 26 is that counsel cannot count exclusively upon the report and automatic disclosure requirements to obtain the materials necessary or helpful for cross-examination of statisticians who have created their own analyses. [read post]

The first edition of the Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence [Manual] was published in 1994, a year after the Supreme Court delivered its opinion in Daubert. [read post]