8th Circuit Reinstates Contaminated Baby Formula Case, Says Expert Testimony Should be Admitted

MINNEAPOLIS — A trial court abused its discretion in excluding a plaintiff’s experts in a contaminated baby formula case, a federal appeals court has ruled, finding that the experts’ methodology was scientifically valid, could properly be applied to the facts of this case, and was therefore reliable.

On June 6, the 8th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals reversed the lower court’s grant of summary judgment to Mead Johnson & Co. and remanded the case to the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota.

H.T.P. was born on May 4, 2005. While in the hospital, he was fed a sterile …