Dwain Lee Christian, Iii

Summary

The court assumed original jurisdiction and issued a writ prohibiting enforcement of an order excluding the plaintiffs' expert testimony. It adopted the Daubert and Kumho standards for civil expert testimony, held that the trial court had improperly required baseline pulmonary data without record support, and directed further proceedings to develop the reliability and causation issues. The court did not determine that the expert's testimony was admissible. There were no separate opinions.