3M Co. prompted the U.S. Supreme Court to evaluate a decision that reinstated thousands of lawsuits declaring a surgical warming blanket caused infections, stating the Eighth Circuit used a mistakenly liberal standard in enabling the complainants’ expert witnesses.The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit poorly folds dependability into relevance in saying professional testimony ought to be permitted unless it’s” so essentially unsupported “by its factual basis that it can offer no support to the jury, 3M said in a petition for certiorari filed on Monday.Both the extreme leniency and the lack of
deference to the district court’s …