| 25-874 |
Johnson & Johnson Consumer Inc. v. Narguess Noohi, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated |
Ninth Circuit |
2026-01-22 |
Pending |
Amici (2) |
civil-procedure class-certification daubert-standard evidentiary-standards expert-testimony federal-rules-of-evidence |
Whether expert testimony must be admissible under Federal Rule of Evidence 702 and the framework enunciated in Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals,… |
| 25-750 |
Calvin M. Costanza v. Florida Marine Transporters, LLC |
Louisiana |
2025-12-23 |
Denied |
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causation-standard daubert-standard jones-act maritime-law scientific-evidence toxic-tort |
Whether under 46 U.S.C.A. § 30104 (The Jones Act) relaxed causation standard, requiring only that the employer's negligence play "any part, even the s… |
| 24-1240 |
Unkechaug Indian Nation, et al. v. Amanda Lefton, Commissioner, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2025-06-05 |
Denied |
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daubert-standard due-process expert-testimony gatekeeping-obligation in-camera-review summary-judgment |
Whether the District Court violated Petitioners' due process rights by granting summary judgment without first fulfilling its gatekeeping obligation u… |
| 24-7272 |
Carlos Barragan Leon v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-05-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
daubert-standard evidence-reliability expert-testimony federal-rules-of-evidence kumho-tire translation-methodology |
Did the district court's failure to make the required reliability finding pursuant to Federal Rule of Evidence 702 of the methodology and principles u… |
| 24-580 |
Richard Cotromano, et al. v. RTX Corporation |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-11-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
abuse-of-discretion daubert-standard dose-reconstruction environmental-exposure expert-testimony gatekeeping-function |
Whether the abuse of discretion standard requires the Circuit Courts to assess whether a trial court performed its gatekeeping function adequately rat… |
| 24-576 |
Nutramax Laboratories, Inc., et al. v. Justin Lytle, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-11-25 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
circuit-split class-certification daubert-standard expert-testimony predominance-requirement rule-23 |
When a plaintiff seeking to certify a class relies on an expert to establish that classwide issues predominate, must the expert testimony satisfy the … |
| 23-7556 |
Nathan O. Beal v. Washington |
Washington |
2024-05-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-trials daubert-standard due-process evidence-rule expert-testimony federal-evidence-rule firearm-ballistics frye-standard scientific-evidence trial-procedure |
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| 23-5524 |
Michael Jones, Jason Reed, and Shaun Myers v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-09-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof daubert daubert-standard dual-role-testimony due-process evidence expert-witness fifth-amendment standard-of-review |
A government witness who testifies as both an investigative fact witness and as an expert witness, pursuant to Rule 702 of the Federal Rules of Eviden… |
| 23-5489 |
Lonnie Dee Brown v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2023-08-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure daubert daubert-standard evidence expert-testimony ineffective-assistance kumho-tire standard-of-review strickland-test |
1. Whether the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals ' review of trial courts
decisions to admit or exclude expert testimony comport with the United
St… |
| 22-279 |
Norine Cave v. Suvidha Sachdeva, et al. |
Georgia |
2022-09-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
14th-amendment daubert daubert-standard directed-verdict discovery discovery-requirements due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment |
1. Whether a litigant's fundamental right to a fair trial, under the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution,… |
| 22-5308 |
Lashawn Lewis v. New York |
New York |
2022-08-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure daubert daubert-standard due-process expert-testimony frye-standard scientific-evidence |
Petitioner's conviction was predicated on the testimony of a so-called blood spatter expert. Defense counsel objected to the admission of this testimo… |
| 21-7309 |
Jaime Calderon, aka Jaime Arredonde, aka Jaime Rene Calderon v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-03-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights daubert-standard due-process evidence expert-testimony gatekeeping-function judicial-reliability kumho-tire law-enforcement law-enforcement-experts reliability |
Whether district courts, serving as Daubert/Kumho Tire gatekeepers, have a duty to assess the reliability of law enforcement officers testifying as ex… |
| 21-1100 |
3M Company, et al. v. George Amador |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-02-09 |
Denied |
Amici (6) |
appellate-review daubert-standard daubert-v-merrell-dow evidence-admissibility expert-testimony federal-rule-of-evidence-702 general-electric-v-joiner judicial-gatekeeping pending-mdl reliability-threshold standard-of-review |
1. Whether the Eighth Circuit's "so fundamentally-unsupported" standard of initial admissibility for expert testimony conflicts with this Court's prec… |
| 21-277 |
Betty E. Smith, as Attorney-In-Fact for Paul C. Smith, Individually and on Behalf of the ERISA-Covered Plan v. HPR Clinic, LLC, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-08-25 |
Denied |
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daubert-standard district-court evidentiary-procedure expert-testimony federal-rules-of-evidence judicial-appointment methodology methodology-standards rule-706 |
Whether an expert appointed by agreement of the parties by a District Court under Federal Rule of Evidence 706 must employ methodology that is general… |
| 21-241 |
Monsanto Company v. Edwin Hardeman |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-08-18 |
Denied |
CVSGAmici (8)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) |
daubert-standard epa-approval expert-testimony failure-to-warn federal-insecticide-fungicide-and-rodenticide-act fifra-preemption herbicide-regulation preemption state-law-claims |
1. Whether FIFRA preempts a state-law failure-to-warn claim where the warning cannot be added to a product without EPA approval and EPA has repeatedly… |
| 21-5301 |
Justin Lane Foust v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-08-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
daubert daubert-standard expert-testimony federal-rules-of-evidence forensic-evidence general-acceptance handwriting-analysis handwriting-comparison judicial-reliability kumho-tire scientific-methodology |
Can the admissibility of expert testimony about the supposed author of a forged writing be upheld on a record that shows little (if anything) more tha… |
| 21-5032 |
Paris Poe v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-07-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
daubert daubert-standard evidence evidence-admissibility expert-testimony feature-comparison federal-rules-of-evidence reliability-standard scientific-methodology scientific-reliability subjective-feature-comparison |
Whether this Court's decision in Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc., 509 U.S. 579 (1993), and Federal Rule of Evidence 702 require lower cou… |
| 20-7773 |
Ganiyu Ayinla Jaiyeola v. Toyota Motor Corporation, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-04-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion circuit-split civil-procedure daubert-standard discovery-deadline expert-report inter-circuit-split intra-circuit-split motion-procedure sanction-standard sanctions |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit created an 1.
intra-circuit and inter-circuit split by wrongly deciding that the Dist… |
| 20-998 |
Mama Jo’s, Inc., dba Berries v. Sparta Insurance Company |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-01-26 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
all-risk-insurance all-risk-policy causation-expert construction-damage daubert-standard direct-physical-loss expert-testimony insurance-coverage |
The central question in this matter is what constitutes physical damage to property for the purposes of triggering coverage under an all-risk insuranc… |
| 20-533 |
Jeffrey Boudreau, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Wendy Boudreau v. Shaw's Supermarkets, Inc. |
First Circuit |
2020-10-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
business-invitee daubert daubert-standard expert-testimony foreseeability kumho premises-liability rule-702 summary-judgment |
1. When a legal duty exists in a premises lability context to protect business invitees from reasonably foreseeable harm, is the question of foreseeab… |
| 20-528 |
Nicholas S. Baas v. United States |
Armed Forces |
2020-10-20 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
confrontation-clause court-martial daubert-standard due-process scientific-evidence sixth-amendment unanimous-verdict |
1. In light of this Court's decision in Ramos v.
Louisiana, does it violate a military servicemember's
Sixth Amendment and due process rights to allow… |
| 20-5633 |
Darren M. Rowe v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-09-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence daubert-standard district-court due-process evidence-analysis expert-testimony habeas-corpus judicial-discretion legal-error new-evidence schlup-v-delo standard-of-review |
Whether the district court committed error when it determined that newly presented evidence does not create for consideration under the Acosta factors… |
| 19-7652 |
Steven Craig Whyte v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-02-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
common-sense common-sense-topics daubert daubert-standard drug-enforcement drug-experts evidence-admissibility expert-testimony jury-instructions kumho-tire |
Whether this Court's Daubert/Kumho Tire jurisprudence bars presentation of law-enforcement agent "drug experts" testifying regarding plain-English exc… |
| 19-7149 |
Guillermo Herrera v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-01-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
admissibility circuit-split daubert-standard daubert-v-merrell-dow expert-testimony eyewitness-identification federal-rules-of-evidence jury-instructions scientific-evidence |
In Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, 509 U.S. 579 (1993), this Court held that Fed. R. Evid. 702 superseded the common law rule governing the ad… |
| 19-6277 |
Mario Ruvalcaba-Garcia v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-10-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review circuit-split daubert daubert-standard evidentiary-reliability expert-testimony harmless-error judicial-gatekeeping make-initial-daubert-decision relevance-and-reliability remand remand-for-new-trial standard-of-review |
When a trial court errs by failing to exercise its "gatekeeping" role of determining whether expert testimony is relevant and reliable under Daubert v… |
| 19-216 |
Harold Persaud v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-08-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure daubert-standard district-court-opinion district-court-review due-process expert-testimony habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judgment-of-conviction merits-review motion-to-vacate standard-of-review |
1. Whether Reasonable Jurists Could Debate the
Denial of Petitioner's Motion to Vacate and Set
Aside his Judgment of Conviction where the District
Cou… |
| 18-9446 |
Davon Kelly Bennett v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-05-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination custodial-interrogation daubert-standard due-process evidence expert-witness-testimony motion-to-suppress rule-404b sixth-amendment |
1. Whether the District Court deprived Petitioner of his right to confront witnesses by limiting defense counsel's opportunity to cross-examine the go… |
| 18-8776 |
Tam Le v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2019-04-10 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5)IFP |
constitutional-rights daubert-standard due-process expert-testimony fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel non-unanimous-jury sixth-amendment |
Reasonable jurors would determined that Mr. Le was convicted by a non-unanimous jury in violation of his rights under the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth… |
| 18-1153 |
Timothy J. Rizzo v. Applied Materials, Inc., et al. |
Second Circuit |
2019-03-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
7th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights daubert daubert-standard due-process expert-testimony scientific-evidence seventh-amendment standard-of-review summary-judgment |
Whether the courts below erroneously abused their discretion dismissing Rizzo's Experts (Dr. Wang, Dr. Miloslaysky, Dr. Hodgman) in conflict with the … |
| 18-7971 |
Kilunnun Adyden Chivoski v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-02-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
admissibility admissibility-threshold child-sexual-abuse daubert daubert-standard expert-testimony expert-witness gate-keeping-hearing kumho-tire peer-review psychological-testimony |
Should a district court be required to conduct a hearing under Daubert to consider the admissibility of expert testimony when the proffered expert adm… |
| 18-7780 |
Joseph Lemoine v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-02-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof burden-of-proof-beyond-reasonable-doubt constitutional-rights daubert-standard due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel essential-elements-of-offense expert-witness fourteenth-amendment reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether reasonable jurists could argue that the State failed to meet its burden of proof beyond a reasonable doubt, every essential element of the off… |
| 18-7327 |
Trevor Johnson v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-01-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-rape Batson-Violation constitutional-rights daubert-standard Denial-of-Motion-to-Suppress expert-testimony first-fourth-fourteenth-amendments fourteenth-amendment insufficient-evidence jury-verdict Non-Unanimous-Verdict reasonable-doubt Unreliable-'Expert'-Testimony unreliable-expert-testimony Violation-of-Telecommunications-Act whether-reasonable-jurists-would-debate-that-the-t whether-reasonable-jurists-would-find-that-the-tri |
Whether reasonable jurist would find that the State failed to prove beyond a reasonable doubt, every essential element of the offense that Mr. Johnson… |
| 18-675 |
Lisa M. West v. Missouri |
Missouri |
2018-11-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
abuse-of-discretion admissibility conviction-and-sentence criminal-appeal daubert-review daubert-standard evidence-admissibility expert-witness judicial-review missouri-law scientific-testimony standard-of-review trial-court-discretion |
1. Whether this court should require a de nova review of the trial court's handling of scientific testimony to determine whether Daubert v. Merrell Do… |
| 18-327 |
N. K., an Infant, By His Mother and Natural Guardian, Tanja Bruestle-Kumra v. Abbott Laboratories |
Second Circuit |
2018-09-13 |
Denied |
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alternative-causation alternative-cause causation-opinion daubert daubert-standard daubert-v-merrell-dow differential-diagnosis expert-testimony expert-testimony-admissibility federal-rule-of-evidence-702 genetic-causation genetic-testing rule-702 |
For an expert's causation opinion to be admissible, do Federal Rule of Evidence 702 and Daubert require additional testing of a plaintiff to eliminate… |
| 18-213 |
H. Richard Austin v. Hanover Insurance Company, aka Massachusetts Bay Insurance Company |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-08-17 |
Denied |
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appellate-procedure circuit-split civil-procedure collateral-estoppel court-interpretation daubert daubert-standard en-banc-review fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court homeowners-insurance judicial-interpretation judicial-procedure motion-for-summary-judgment res-judicata sanctions summary-order |
1)111 the federal court system, is an initial, appellate "Summary Order" (without en banc review) the definitive source regarding the subject matter c… |
| 18-5546 |
Billie Wayne Coble v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-08-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-case capital-sentencing constitutional-rights daubert daubert-standard due-process eighth-amendment expert-testimony future-dangerousness reliability |
1. Have the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals improperly applied Barefoot v. Estelle to cat… |