United States Ninth Circuit

Foreign animal studies used to prove a product's health effects on humans are not per se inadmissible under the Daubert standard.

Appellate Information

• Argued 05/09/2001
• Decided 09/05/2001
• Published 09/05/2001

Judges

• Before:  RYMER, HAWKINS and GOULD, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Stephen Mansfield (argued), Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, Los Angeles, California, for the plaintiff-appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Steven J. Comen (argued), and J. Anthony Downs, Goodwin, Procter & Hoar, Boston, Massachusetts, for defendants-appellees Hearst-Argyle Television, Inc. and Susan Wornick., Robert O'Regan (argued), Burns & Levinson, Boston Massachusetts, and Gregory D. Roper, Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps, San Diego, California, for defendant-appellee George Blackburn.