Sentences with phrase «jury verdict following»

Reasons for judgement were released today by the BC Supreme Court, Vancouver Registry, highlighting a $ 3 million jury verdict following a nightclub assault.

An experienced trial lawyer, he has pursued or defended numerous nine - and eight - figure cases, which includes obtaining a full defense jury verdict following a multi-month trial for an institutional client facing $ 100 million in contract and business tort claims.

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Synopsis: Following the closing arguments in a murder trial, the 12 members of the jury must deliberate, with a guilty verdict meaning death for the accused,... [MORE]

Following the verdict, Companion Animal Protection Society (CAPS) released a statement about why the jury found Bauck not guilty on the two felony charges.

When no help was provided by the court, the jury took a shot at completing the verdict form, as follows:

Presented with this verdict form following the trial, the court observed that the Verdict Amount ($ 336,300) did not equal $ 207,600 multiplied by 62 percent, and asked the jury to reconsider its computverdict form following the trial, the court observed that the Verdict Amount ($ 336,300) did not equal $ 207,600 multiplied by 62 percent, and asked the jury to reconsider its computVerdict Amount ($ 336,300) did not equal $ 207,600 multiplied by 62 percent, and asked the jury to reconsider its computations.

In the ordinary course of affairs, the defense lawyer will request that the judge poll the jury following the verdict.

Mr. Stern and Ms. Deluhery obtained a federal jury verdict in favor of a male prep school student in New Hampshire, who had been expelled following a mishandled internal investigation into his sexual encounter with an underage female student.

Some jurisdictions also allow attorneys the right to raise motions to set aside the jury verdict or ask for other relief following the reading of the verdict.

The Appellate Practice Group was retained following the entry of a jury verdict in a construction accident case in the Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas.

As a result, each wrongful death lawsuit is different and the amount of compensation that surviving family members can recover in a settlement or jury verdict is based on a number of factors, including the following:

Ryan's recent litigation success includes the following verdicts and settlements: a settlement in the case of D.L. v. HMS Construction, Inc. et al. for $ 21.5 million; a jury verdict in the case of Rittger v.

Considering that the same district court allowed Apple to leverage a couple of recent Supreme Court opinions concerning fee - shifting in connection with its pursuit of a recovery of attorneys» fees from Samsung, it would seem just fair for Samsung to be allowed to make an Alice argument now, just in time before Judge Lucy Koh will decide on the parties» motions for judgment as a matter of law (JMOL) following the recent $ 119 million jury verdict (which was disappointing enough for Apple to request a retrial).

Chief Justice Martel Popescul addressed the jury following the lawyers» closing arguments and set out the three possible verdicts:

In that sense, the most accurate description of the jury's paradoxical authority to act on its own in disregard of the law even while it is charged with following the law is the raw power to bring in a verdict of acquittal in the teeth of the law and the facts.»

Litigation Department Co-Chair David Lender and Antitrust Litigation partner Eric Hochstadt have been named «Litigators of the Week» by both The AmLaw Litigation Daily and Global Competition Review for securing a complete defense jury verdict for C&S Wholesale Grocers following nine days of trial in an antitrust class action in Minnesota federal court.

One example mentioned in Texas Lawyer explained the new rule as follows: If a defendant offers a settlement of $ 100,000, but the plaintiff refuses and goes to trial only to win a jury verdict of $ 80,000, then the defendant could collect costs and attorney's fees, but not more than $ 80,000.

The court in Corbett v. Odorico, 2016 ONSC 1964, followed Vickers, and stated that the regulations are in place to «fix the deductible amounts in current dollars, just as jury verdicts and other court judgments are in current dollars.»

On April 19, 2018, Weil secured a complete defense jury verdict for C&S Wholesale Grocers following nine days of trial in an antitrust class action in Minnesota federal court.

Obtained a jury verdict in favor of a physician in a case involving complications following a surgical procedure.

Obtained a defense verdict in favor of a major Orlando theme park following a seven - day jury trial.

In January 2011, following a three - day trial in district court, Hughes Hubbard secured dismissal of the claim against the City, and won a jury verdict clearing Det. Brockmann of any culpability for the detention of Bernshtein at Central Booking.

SGT partner Paul Slager and Jennifer B. Goldstein have won a more than $ 12 million judgment following jury verdict against the Boy Scouts of America in a lawsuit by a man who was sexually abused by a... Read more >

He put forth no effort to prevent a death sentence, which helps explain how the jury quickly reached a death sentence verdict (within three hours of deliberation) at the sentencing phase The trial judge quickly followed up by the next day with eighteen death sentences and fifteen life sentences.

Following the jury's verdict, Justice Ramsay awarded the plaintiff costs on a substantial indemnity basis (a higher rate than usual) from the date of his offer to settle until the trial, along with costs on a partial indemnity basis (the usual rate) up until the offer, for a total of $ 140,000 plus HST.

Served as second - chair trial counsel and secured defense verdict following seven - week jury trial in the California Superior Court for the County of Orange of action for strict and negligent products liability and negligence based on allegations of design defects, manufacturing defects, and warning defects.

$ 6.3 Million Jury Verdict — Hypoxia brain injury following minimally invasive surgery from drug interaction.

At Bredell & Bredell, we prepare for trial and follow through - all the way to jury verdict if necessary.

The jury verdict of $ 1,000,000 was awarded in the following fashion: $ 250,000 in compensatory damages to Charles Smith, $ 250,000 to Shaniqua Smith, $ 200,000 to Katrina Smith, $ 200,000 to Linda Williams, and $ 100,000 to Frances Williams.

Obtained a significant jury verdict for an insurance company client following a nine - day trial in Connecticut federal court.

Obtained a jury verdict in favor of Sempra Generation on all counts following a four - week jury trial in a case challenging Sempra's $ 6.6 billion energy supply contract with the California Department of Water Resources.

Following a jury verdict awarding plaintiff $ 919.9 million in compensatory damages for defendant's willful and malicious misappropriation of 149 trade secrets, the Richmond U.S. District Court awards plaintiff $ 350,000 in punitive damages: Virginia's Uniform Trade Secrets Act caps punitive damages...

Our veteran trial lawyers have successfully managed complex and class action litigation as lead or co-lead counsel, obtaining substantial settlements and jury verdicts in groundbreaking cases in the following areas:

Today Apple filed its opposition to Samsung's motion for a swift remand of the Galaxy Tab 10.1 preliminary injunction to the district court, following Judge Koh's indicative ruling that the jury verdict, which did not hold Samsung to infringe the D'889 tablet design patent on which the sales ban is based, raised a substantial question.

Served as lead counsel for the defendant and achieved a defense verdict on behalf of a debtor bank holding company following an advisory jury trial involving a claim by the FDIC for more than US$ 500 million.

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

In a charge of murder, the jury is painfully aware of the only sentence that can follow a guilty verdict.

Following his undergraduate studies, Cody clerked for Broadus A. Spivey for two years in Austin, Texas, and assisted Mr. Spivey in preparing and trying numerous cases to jury verdicts in state and federal courts.

Successfully defended an aircraft manufacturer following a 19 - month jury trial; the verdict was upheld on appeal by the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals.

With the very narrow, newly created exception for guilty verdicts in criminal cases reached based upon racial or other kinds of impermissible prejudice rather than the facts of the case (or cases where there is an outside influence on the jury such as a bribe or someone looking up facts or law on the Internet), no one can challenge a jury verdict based upon the reasoning and conclusions actually made by the jurors, even if someone learns that the jury knowingly or accidentally didn't follow the law or was mistaken about the facts.

But, there are lots of jury verdicts which can't be overturned for any of the reasons # 1, # 2, # 3, # 4 or # 5, even though the verdicts were actually based upon a misunderstanding of the law, an inaccurate understanding of the facts of the case, or a deliberate decision not to apply the law that the jury was instructed to follow to the facts of the case as the jury sincerely understands them to be.

Also, it isn't terribly uncommon for a jury to think that they are deliberately ignoring the law provided to them in the jury instructions when they render a verdict, because they think doing so would be unjust, when they actually misunderstood the jury instructions regarding the law and by disregarding the law as they misunderstand it to be based upon their misreading of the jury instructions, are actually following the law upon which they were properly instructed.

Often everyone even knows that the jury reached its verdict because it misunderstood the law or the facts, based upon interviews with the jurors immediately following the trial, but nothing can be done about that to reverse a jury verdict if a sincere jury following the instructions could have reached the same conclusion if they'd viewed the credibility of the witnesses differently.

The decision follows an opposing verdict earlier this month, in which the jury in the long - running infringement case found that certain components of Android APIs had too close of a resemblance to code used in Oracle's Java programming tools.

Following a jury trial, the purchasers received a verdict of $ 206,250.92.