Sentences with phrase «cited by the jury»

The work was cited by the jury as «a powerful and disturbing installation that poses urgent questions of our time and pushes the spectator into an aware state of anxiety.»

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And she was able to postpone jury duty for herself on Thursday by citing her busy schedule.

That reported comment by CM Seabrook's defense lawyer, Anthony Ricco was cited by US Attorney Preet Bharara as possibly influencing the jury.

Mr. Bharara cited the strong response made by one of his prosecutors, Andrew D. Goldstein, who told the jury that such an argument tainted the democratic process by calling corruption «politics as usual.»

Swiss artist Pipilotti Rist — cited as «one of the most important artists working today» by the jury — will receive this year's $ 50,000 Zürich Festival Prize, becoming the first - ever visual artist to win the award, which for the previous seven years has gone to musicians and composers.

As America's most - cited judge, Judge Richard Posner, put it last year, «Judges have difficulty understanding modern technology and jurors have even greater difficulty, yet patent plaintiffs tend to request trial by jury because they believe that jurors tend to favor patentees, believing that they must be worthy inventors defending the fruits of their invention against copycats -LSB-...]».

R.E.M. and B.M. (also Griecken, [2009] O.J. No. 5037 at 24 — 25) cite Bell, [1997] N.W.T.J. No. 18 (CA) at para 28:... Where, as here, expert evidence is offered by the defence, in its efforts to make full answer and defence, a trial court should not impose, as noted in Mohan, too strict a standard for the necessity of such evidence, especially where as here the witness recognized the need to avoid crossing into the jury's domain.

U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton today postponed two upcoming wrongful death trials in the June 22, 2009 Metro rail crash at the Fort Totten station in Northeast Washington, citing recent media reports and comments made by counsel and parties that had «poisoned» the jury pool.

To justify remittitur, the court again cited precedent to state that, «a jury's award must be so excessive that it shocks the conscience of the trial court, indicating that the jury's decision was motivated by «passion, corruption or prejudice.

[35] The plaintiff argues that the cases cited by the defendants in which a plaintiff's financial circumstances were considered in relation to future wage loss were not jury cases.

37 It cited Wikipedia itself as to how it is «openly editable,» as well as a number of federal court decisions «troubled by Wikipedia's lack of reliability» and ultimately concluded the government could not show there was «no reasonable possibility» that the jury's verdict was not impacted by the internet research.38 At least one federal court has followed Lawson to set aside another jury verdict based on a juror's research on the IRS website, which, although equally beyond the scope of the evidence at trial, is undoubtedly more reliable than a website like Wikipedia.39

Recent American research, cited by Professor Liz Kelly, suggests that «men are much more likely to have limited definitions of what constitutes rape, and that these attitudes affect their behaviour in simulations of jury decision - making».

[21] Based on a review of the evidence at trial, described in part above, and the cases cited, as well as a review of the submissions of counsel, I find that the offer to settle in the amount of $ 75,000 ought reasonably to have been accepted by the plaintiff having given consideration to the foreseeable credibility problems and the negative verdict of the jury.

Judge Koh cited the longstanding rule that the Seventh Amendment prohibits a judicial increase in a damages award made by a jury.