Cert Sought Over Rulings On Experts In Depakote Birth Defect Case

(September 20, 2018, 11:09 AM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Supreme Court intervention is needed to repair the damage done to Daubert jurisprudence when the Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals upheld exclusion of a mother’s causation experts in her attempt to hold a drugmaker liable for her child’s birth defects, she tells the high court in her Sept. 7 petition for a writ of certiorari (N.K. v. Abbott Laboratories, No. 18-327, U.S. Sup., 2018 U.S. S. Ct. Briefs LEXIS 3358)....