{"id":439,"date":"2012-04-02T07:35:27","date_gmt":"2012-04-02T13:35:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myconstructionexpert.com\/blog\/?p=439"},"modified":"2012-04-02T07:35:27","modified_gmt":"2012-04-02T13:35:27","slug":"daubert-challenges-up-250-percent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myconstructionexpert.com\/blog\/daubert-challenges-up-250-percent\/","title":{"rendered":"Daubert Challenges Up 250 Percent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Are Daubert challenges really weeding out \u201cjunk science\u201d and \u201cpseudoscience\u201d in the courtroom, or could it be that they are actually scaring off good, competent experts? Given the numbers alone, one can\u2019t help but wonder.<\/p>\n<p>Since the U.S. Supreme Court\u2019s 1999 decision in Kumho Tire Co. v. Carmichael, which established that the criteria set forth in Daubert applied to other types of expert testimony \u2013 not just that of a scientific nature \u2013 the number of Daubert challenges has risen sharply. While some increase may not be too surprising \u2013 after all, the Kumho decision expanded the pool of experts subject to Daubert criteria \u2013 what has perhaps left experts and attorneys scratching their heads is the sheer increase in the number of challenges.<\/p>\n<p>According to a PricewaterhouseCooper study, which looked at Daubert challenges post Kumho, the number of Daubert challenges to all expert witness types increased dramatically in the first decade of 2000. The study looked at federal courts and state courts utilizing Daubert and revealed that Daubert challenges to all types of experts have exploded \u2013 in the year 2000 the study noted 253 Daubert challenges, and that figure jumps to 879 in the year 2010 \u2013 amounting to an almost 250% increase. In fact, 2010 marked the year with the most Daubert challenges ever.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ims-expertservices.com\/blog\/2012\/daubert-challenges-up-350\/\">Daubert Challenges Up 250 Percent | BullsEye Blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are Daubert challenges really weeding out \u201cjunk science\u201d and \u201cpseudoscience\u201d in the courtroom, or could it be that they are actually scaring off good, competent experts? Given the numbers alone, one can\u2019t help but wonder. Since the U.S. Supreme Court\u2019s 1999 decision in Kumho Tire Co. v. Carmichael, which established that the criteria set forth&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.myconstructionexpert.com\/blog\/daubert-challenges-up-250-percent\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Daubert Challenges Up 250 Percent<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[98],"class_list":["post-439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-expert-witness","tag-daubert-challenge","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Daubert Challenges Up 250 Percent - Advise &amp; Consult, Inc.<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.myconstructionexpert.com\/blog\/daubert-challenges-up-250-percent\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Daubert Challenges Up 250 Percent - Advise &amp; Consult, Inc.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Are Daubert challenges really weeding out \u201cjunk science\u201d and \u201cpseudoscience\u201d in the courtroom, or could it be that they are actually scaring off good, competent experts? 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