Court Finds Expert Testimony Inadmissible, Dismisses Final Defendant

JACKSON, Miss. -- A Mississippi federal court has found the expert testimony of Marland Dulaney Jr., Ph.D., to be inadmissible in an acute lymphocytic leukemia benzene case, finding fault with the expert's reliance on literature linking benzene exposure to acute myelogenous leukemia. Pounds, et al. v. Rogersol Inc., et al., No. 07-554 (S.D. Miss.).

In the June 15 opinion, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi rejected Dulaney's assessment that leukemia could be considered in the aggregate and instead ruled that studies demonstrating a link between a subtype of leukemia, such as ALL, and benzene exposure were …