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Exposing The Analytical Gap: How To Challenge A RADS Diagnosis
Mealey's Emerging Toxic Torts, Vol. 10, #16, November 16, 2001
June 12, 2002

In 1985, a physician named Stuart Brooks published an article that coined the term Reactive Airway Dysfunction Syndrome ("RADS") to refer to a highly specific variant of asthma.



The Availability of Daubert Hearings: A Circuit by Circuit Perspective
Mealey's Emerging Toxic Tors, Vol. 10, #2 - April 20, 2001
June 12, 2002

Your opposing counsel has hired an expert to testify at trial. Both you and your expert question the reliability of the opposing expert's findings. You plan to challenge the opposing expert's testimony and try to prevent some, if not all, of it from being heard at trial.



Epidemiology in the Courts: How Necessary is the Best Evidence of Causation?
Mealey's Emerging Toxic Torts, Vol. 10, #21 - February 1, 2002
June 12, 2002

Matthew L. Mattila

Epidemiology, or the study of "incidence, distribution , and etiology of disease in human populations," has commonly been touted as the "best evidence of causation" in toxic tort actions.



A Rose Is A Rose Is A Rose: MCS By Any Other Name Is Still Not Good Science
May 23, 2002

A commentary article reprinted from the July 7, 2000 issue of Mealey's Emerging Toxic Torts.



"Limiting Liabilities at Hazardous Waste Facilities in Georgia" - Joan Sasine & Matt Mattila published
Spring 2008
Air & Waste Management's Georgia Chapter Newsletter

Matthew L. Mattila
Joan B. Sasine



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