In courtrooms across the nation, predatory trial lawyers use shaky science to manipulate juries into awarding millions (sometimes billions) of dollars to sympathetic plaintiffs.
But when juries hold companies liable for harm that the companies did not cause, they undermine the truth-seeking function of the American judicial system.
Verdicts that are not based on careful, fact-based determinations of causation impose unfair economic burdens on the manufacturers of safe and beneficial products.
Ultimately, it is the consumers that pay the price in the form of higher prices and reduced access to useful products and potentially life-saving medications and vaccines.
Trial judges must take seriously their role as evidentiary gatekeepers to ensure that unreliable expert testimony does not unduly prejudice outcomes.
