United States Fifth Circuit

In a personal injury action by a mother claiming that Defendant doctor negligently administered a drug during her pregnancy that injured her, judgment for Plaintiff is reversed where the District Court abused its discretion by excluding expert testimony by a physician whose education and knowledge allowed him to form a reliable opinion as to whether the drug at issue caused cardiomyopathy.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/10/2009
• Published 06/10/2009

Judges

• DeMOSS, Circuit Judge:, Before HIGGINBOTHAM, DeMOSS and OWEN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Ralph E. Chapman, Chapman, Lewis & Swan, Clarksdale, MS, John H. Daniels, III, Dyer, Dyer, Jones & Daniels, Greenville, MS, Jane HorneMyers Virden (argued), Chapman, Lewis & Swan, Madison, MS, for Plaintiffs-Appellees., Mark Priestly Caraway (argued), Meta S. Copeland, Wise Carter Child & Caraway, Jackson, MS, for Defendants-Appellants.