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Betty E. Smith, as Attorney-In-Fact for Paul C. Smith, Individually and on Behalf of the ERISA-Covered Plan v. HPR Clinic, LLC, et al.
Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, No. 20-3573 · judgment February 19, 2021
Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate, with no standout signals pointing toward a grant.
Question presented
Whether the Court should resolve the following question of first impression: Whether an expert appointed by agreement of the parties by a District Court under Federal Rule of Evidence 706 must employ methodology that is generally accepted within the relevant industry and comply with the Daubert qualitative standards?
Counsel of record
For petitioner
Leo Patrick Ross
For respondent
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Case
Subject area
Judicial Power (estimated from the questions presented, in the Supreme Court Database’s categories)
Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference
Order
Order list, November 1, 2021 · Certiorari denied
Proceedings
- Nov 01 2021Petition DENIED.
- Oct 06 2021DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/29/2021.
- Aug 20 2021Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due September 24, 2021)