Trial lawyers, especially defense lawyers in the pharmaceutical and medical device arena, strive to ensure that “junk science” stays out of the courtroom. Unfortunately, that is often wishful thinking ...

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A little while ago, a reader sent me a Nevada Supreme Court ruling. In the unanimous opinion, the justices cited my work from the mid-2000s criticizing the use of bite-mark identification in criminal ...

As courts bash sound science and generate questionable decisions, an old cry for constituting “science courts” has been revived. Ethical dilemmas created by scientific advances also cry for resolution ...

In 2022, Wellcome Connecting Science, a genomic science program funded by the Wellcome Trust, organized a citizens’ jury to ask whether the U.K. government should allow scientists to edit the DNA of ...

Arthur Kantrowitz has been an articulate proponent of creating a science court designed to improve such decision making. The court would weigh scientific data pertaining to an issue apart from its ...

The U.S. Supreme Court is currently reviewing a case to determine whether President Donald Trump's global tariffs are legal. When U.S. Supreme Court justices write opinions, they mostly talk about the ...

In his commentary "Expert Witnesses: Legal Legionnaires,"1 ... Dr. Deftos is correct regarding the broad discretion (and responsibility) given trial court judges by the Daubert ruling and its ...

This inconsistency disrupts corporations’ handling of toxic tort lawsuits, which arise in federal courts and multiple state courts simultaneously, impacting reserves, SEC disclosures, and corporate ...