Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

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Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued March 30, 1993 Decided June 28, 1993
Full case name	William Daubert, et ux., etc., et al., Petitioners v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Docket no.	92-102
Citations	509 U.S. 579 (more) 113 S. Ct. 2786; 125 L. Ed. 2d 469; 1993 U.S. LEXIS 4408; 61 U.S.L.W. 4805; 27 U.S.P.Q.2D (BNA) 1200; CCH Prod. Liab. Rep. ¶ 13,494; 93 Cal. Daily Op. Service 4825; 93 Daily Journal DAR 8148; 23 ELR 20979; 7 Fla. L. Weekly Fed. S 632
Case history
Prior	Summary judgment granted to defendants, 727 F.Supp. 570 (S.D. Cal. 1989); affirmed, 951 F.2d 1128 (9th Cir. 1991); certiorari granted, 506 U.S. 914 (1992)
Holding
The Federal Rules of Evidence govern the admission of scientific evidence in a trial held in federal court. They require the trial judge to act as a gatekeeper before admitting the evidence, determining that the evidence is scientifically valid and relevant to the case at hand.
Court membership
Chief Justice William Rehnquist Associate Justices Byron White · Harry Blackmun John P. Stevens · Sandra Day O'Connor Antonin Scalia · Anthony Kennedy David Souter · Clarence Thomas
Case opinions
Majority	Blackmun, joined by White, O'Connor, Scalia, Kennedy, Souter, Thomas
Concur/dissent	Rehnquist, joined by Stevens
Laws applied
Federal Rules of Evidence 104(a), 702, 703
This case overturned a previous ruling or rulings
Frye v. United States (1923)

Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc., 509 U.S. 579 (1993), is a United States Supreme Court case determining the standard for admitting expert testimony in federal courts. In Daubert, the Court held that the enactment of the Federal Rules of Evidence implicitly overturned the Frye standard; the standard that the Court articulated is referred to as the Daubert standard.^[1]