Garner v. BNSF Railway Co. (2024) D082229 D082229; filed 1/4/24. ![[Files/CaseFiles/D082229.PDF]] [Opinion PDF](https://www.courts.ca.gov/opinions/archive/D082229.PDF) ## Rule excerpts Applying Sargon Enterprises, Inc. v. University of Southern California (2012) 55 Cal.4th 747, 772 to expert admissibility in a FELA action. > Nor should the court determine the persuasiveness of an expert’s opinion, weigh the opinion’s probative value, substitute its own opinion for the expert’s opinion, or resolve scientific controversies. (Ibid.) Rather, the goal “is simply to exclude ‘clearly invalid and unreliable’ expert opinion.” (Ibid.) — Garner v. BNSF Railway Co. (2024) D082229, slip op., p. 17.