Government: Causation Lacking In Camp Lejeune Case, Experts Fail Evidence Standard

( September 11, 2025, 11:50 AM EDT) -- RALEIGH, N.C. — The U.S. government has filed a brief in support of a motion for partial summary judgment in the Camp Lejeune water crisis XE "water crisis"  multidistrict litigation in North Carolina federal court arguing that the plaintiffs lack evidence supporting general causation as between exposure to dichloroethylene (DCE) and what are called Track 1 diseases. In addition to the government’s motion regarding DCE, it filed a raft of pleadings seeking to exclude multiple plaintiffs’ experts pursuant to Federal Rule of Evidence 702 in various individual actions that are part of the MDL....