Sentences with phrase «civil jury verdicts»

Office of Court Administration, District Court Summary of Jury Activity from Sept. 1, 2004, to Aug. 31, 2005, 3 (2005)[hereinafter 2005 Jury Activity], available at Since then, this number has decreased by nearly 30 percent; in 2012, only 1,197 civil jury verdicts were rendered.

A monthly review of State and Federal civil jury verdicts with professional analysis and commentary.

Zarin's Jury Verdict Review Publications was founded in 1980 by Ira J. Zarin, Esq., an eminent and certified civil trial attorney, for the purpose of educating and apprising members of the bar of what is happening at the trial court level by thoroughly reviewing and analyzing civil jury verdicts and settlements.

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A civil jury verdict should be set aside only where it is so plainly unreasonable and unjust that no jury, reviewing the evidence as a whole and acting judicially, could have arrived at the verdict: see Housen v. Nikolaisen, 2002 SCC 33 (CanLII), [2002] 2 S.C.R. 235, at para. 30.

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In more than 25 years of practice, he has tried 20 federal criminal and civil cases, almost all to juries that returned verdicts.

All of the clergy in the courtroom project have agreed to support the jury's verdict in the racially - charged case, which sparked large rallies and marches led by civil rights figures like the Rev. Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson.

James — along with The Post, the Legal Aid Society and the New York Civil Liberties Union — also filed a petition in Dec. 2014 seeking to have the Staten Island District Attorney unseal the grand jury minutes in the Eric Garner verdict.

Trial to verdict of over seventy - five civil jury trials in Dade, Monroe, Broward and Palm Beach Counties.

Laura has successfully argued a motion to dismiss a federal securities fraud class action, examined the expert witness and conducted the post-trial argument on evidentiary and valuation issues in an appraisal action in Delaware Chancery Court, and obtained a favorable federal jury verdict after a multi-day prisoner civil rights trial.

Obtained defense verdict after a two week jury trial in federal court for a bail bondswoman charged with unlawful entry and civil rights violations.

[1] This action stemmed from a motor vehicle accident in March of 2008 and proceeded to resolution by a civil jury trial; a trial which began with selection of a jury on September 16, 2013, and concluded with a jury verdict and corresponding judgment on October 10, 2013.

Tried a double wrongful death case on behalf of a road builder to a hung jury in a county that had not had a defense verdict in a civil case in 20 years.

Trial Advocacy General Litigation of Civil Personal Injury and Criminal Actions in all New Jersey Superior and Municipal Courts Trial and Appellate Practice Motion Practice Numerous Civil and Criminal Superior Court jury trials to verdict in addition to appearances before the Appellate Division of the New Jersey Superior Court as well as the New Jersey Supreme Court.

Stay up to date with the latest civil court jury verdicts and settlements.

His Diplomate rank with the American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA) certifies he has tried over 100 civil jury trials to verdict as lead trial counsel.

A monthly national review of State and Federal civil jury medical malpractice verdicts and settlements with professional analysis and commentary selected for their informative and comparative value in the preparation, presentation and defense of medical malpractice litigation.

In 1966, Kalven and Zeisel found that judges agreed with civil and criminal verdicts 78 % of the time, and that judge - jury disagreements were only rarely caused by the complexity of the evidence.

Secured jury verdict for municipal employer in sex discrimination case brought by a transgender former employee under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

This review was sponsored by The Civil Litigator, a comprehensive database of verdicts in the Midwest that can help you find expert witnesses and keep up with jury decisions.

CACR 18 Provides legislature may create «redress of grievance» panels to hear appeals of jury verdicts in criminal cases and jury decisions in civil cases.

Hughes Hubbard successfully defended the City of New York and an NYPD detective against an appeal by a woman seeking to overturn a jury verdict and summary judgment dismissing her civil rights claims of false arrest and malicious prosecution.

Norm Pattis is veteran of more than 100 successful jury trials, many resulting in acquittals for people charged with serious crimes, multi million dollar civil rights and discrimination verdicts, and successful criminal appeals.

The firm's successes include the top patent infringement award ever issued by a U.S. jury; the nation's first civil liability verdict against a foreign bank for providing material financial support to terrorists; and one of the top business fraud verdicts ever awarded in Dallas County.

Obtained jury verdict for landowner on claims of nuisance, trespass, and civil rights violations.

In Idaho civil disputes, we have a rule that a jury of 12 is appointed and a three - quarter majority verdict is enough to give you a binding verdict.

He has also secured several seven figure settlements and to date, he has tried 58 civil jury trials to verdict.

He has litigated to verdict more than 30 civil and criminal cases and has decades of litigation experience in civil and criminal jury and non-jury trials.

1 For attempts to measure the effect of advocacy quality through other means, see, e.g., Banks Miller et al., Leveling the Odds: The Effect of Quality Legal Representation in Cases of Asymmetrical Capability, 49 Law & Soc» y Rev. 209 (2015)(finding that high quality representation evened the odds for asylum applicants and that asylum seekers fared better when unrepresented than when represented by a poor lawyer); Mitchell J. Frank & Dr. Osvaldo F. Morera, Professionalism and Advocacy at Trial — Real Jurors Speak in Detail About the Performance of Their Advocates, 64 Baylor L. Rev. 1, 38 (2012)(finding statistically significant correlations in criminal cases between jurors» perceptions of closing argument persuasiveness and jury verdict, and finding statistically significant correlations in civil cases between perceptions of defense counsel's closing argument persuasiveness and defense verdict); James M. Anderson & Paul Heaton, How Much Difference Does the Lawyer Make?

He is an experienced trial lawyer who has tried more than 1oo civil jury trials to verdict.

The IADC later founded Lawyers for Civil Justice (LCJ) to address rapidly accelerating litigation costs, runaway jury verdicts and routine awards of punitive damages.

[**] I bracket for the moment how we consider, in terms of assessing «justice,» the civil verdict that necessarily included a jury finding that Simpson killed Nicole Brown and Ron Goldman but that did not impose criminal punishment, or the absurdly long sentence Simpson received in 2008 for the events in Nevada, which everyone sees as having impermissibily taken the murders into account.

In one interview segment, attorney Carl Douglas points out that the Nevada judge held the jury until late into the evening to announce the verdict on the thirteenth anniversary of the murder acquittal and sentenced Simpson to 33 years, matching the $ 33 million in damages awarded in the civil case.

Greene Broillet & Wheeler, LLP Obtains $ 4.2 Million Verdict From Jury In Civil Suit Against Paul Revere Life Insurance Company And Unum Group

«Top Jury Verdicts of 2001: Employer's «Terror Campaign» Led to Civil Rights Verdict,» Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly, January 14, 2002.

There is a well - established procedure in the federal courts of the United States, and similar structures in all state systems I'm familiar with, that allows the judge to overrule a civil jury if it finds that no reasonable jury could have reached the verdict they did.

(5) It is important to distinguish between civil cases in which juries are sometimes asked only to make a finding of fact, versus cases in which the jury renders a verdict.

Guilty verdicts of juries in criminal cases, and any verdict in a civil case like a patent law case, are subject to post-trial review by the trial judge who can throw out the verdict or call for a new trial for a variety of reasons, and to appeal.

And the jury gave the usual verdict... [9]... While jury trials in civil cases seem to exist in Ontario solely to keep damages awards low in the interest of insurance companies, rather than to facilitate injured parties being judged by their peers, the fact is that the jury system is still the law of the land....

Jury nullification is also only effective, for the most part, in criminal cases, as a jury verdict in a civil case can be reversed if under the correct law no evidence in the record supports the verdJury nullification is also only effective, for the most part, in criminal cases, as a jury verdict in a civil case can be reversed if under the correct law no evidence in the record supports the verdjury verdict in a civil case can be reversed if under the correct law no evidence in the record supports the verdict.

Throughout his career, Miner has tried over two dozen cases to jury verdict as a prosecutor and civil litigator.

A jury verdict in a civil trial will be set aside only if it is so plainly unreasonable and unjust as to satisfy the court that no jury reviewing the evidence as a whole and acting judicially could have reached it.

The hallmark of the firm is integrity and skilled representation and a strong tradition of successful litigation which includes a number of multimillion - dollar jury verdicts in civil trials.

The jury's verdict included the awarding of more than $ 5 million in civil damages.

In 2006 a jury returned a $ 6.5 million verdict in a civil suit against private contractor The Shaw Group after a 21 - year - old Army private in basic training was electrocuted after coming in contact with a metal latrine.

The finding «represents the largest civil forfeiture jury verdict and the largest terrorism - related civil forfeiture in U.S. history,» Joon H. Kim, the acting U.S. Attorney in Manhattan, said in a statement.