Robert Joiner began work as an electrician in the Water & Light Department of Thomasville, Georgia, in

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Robert Joiner began work as an electrician in the Water & Light Department of Thomasville, Georgia, in 1973. Mr. Joiner worked with and around electrical transformers that contained a fluid. In 1983, the city of Thomasville discovered that this fluid contained polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), a substance considered hazardous. Mr. Joiner was diagnosed with lung cancer in 1991 and filed suit against General Electric, the manufacturer of the transformers, for negligence and product liability.

Mr. Joiner had been a smoker, his parents were smokers, and his family had a history of lung cancer.

Mr. Joiner offered expert testimony on studies involving the injection of PCB into the stomachs of infant mice and resulting cancer. The experts had no epidemiological studies on PCB exposure. Should the expert testimony be admitted? [General Electric Co. v Joiner, 522 U.S. 136 (1997)]

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