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213366P.pdf   08/02/2023  Rebecca Lancaster  v.  BNSF Railway Company
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  21-3366
   U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska - Lincoln   
   [PUBLISHED] [Kobes, Author, with Shepherd and Stras, Circuit Judges] 
   Civil case - Federal Employers' Liability Act. Plaintiff alleged her 
   husband, a BNSF employee, contracted lung cancer from exposure to 
   asbestos, diesel exhaust, and silica dust at work. The district court 
   granted BNSF's motion to exclude testimony from a medical expert that the 
   alleged exposure caused the employee's cancer; without the evidence, 
   plaintiff could not prove causation, and the district court granted BNSF's 
   motion for summary judgment. The district court did not abuse its 
   considerable discretion by determining that the doctor's opinion lacked a 
   sufficient foundation and that, in turn, his methodology for proving 
   causation was unreliable.