Double Take: Fifth Circuit’s Dual BELO Rulings Show Both General and Specific Causation Are Essential

We previously blogged about a decision in the In re Deepwater Horizon BELO litigation – Ruffin v. BP Exploration & Production, Inc. – in which the Fifth Circuit affirmed summary judgment for defendants in an alleged chemical exposure case based solely on exclusion of the plaintiff’s expert testimony on general causation without reaching the experts’ specific causation opinions. As it turns out, in another BELO case argued before the same panel on the same day, the panel analyzed the…
By: Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP