Court Orders Daubert Hearing as Part of Class Certification Analysis.

The article reports that the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia has ordered a full, evidentiary Daubert hearing as part of deciding whether to certify a class in a pending action in the Rhodes v. E.I. DuPont de Nemours & Co. case. It states that the ruling follows a number of decisions in federal circuits to allow an analysis of a motion for class certification. The court issued a Daubert hearing to test the plaintiffs' key experts' methodology and assumptions.