Sentences with phrase «law after the verdict»

Although a jury may provide a higher award, the court will reduce the amount of the award to comply with the damage cap law after the verdict is rendered.

Not exact matches

Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan in a statement Tuesday said he would be willing to discuss «additional changes» to the state's ethics and transparency laws after the guilty verdict in the corruption case of Joe Percoco, a former close aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

The Skelos verdicts, like the earlier one against ex-Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, got upended because the US Supreme Court effectively changed the law after the trials ended.

Most jurors didn't speak after the verdict, but Arleen Phillips, 53, of Mount Vernon, said she was the lone juror who initially thought Silver was not guilty but was eventually swayed by Silver's failure to fully reveal his law - firm referral money on state disclosure forms.

On Friday, April 25 I sent a letter to the United States Attorney General after the verdict in the Sean Bell case was announced seeking an investigation of the facts of this case under federal criminal civil rights laws.

But Lynch went ballistic, accusing de Blasio of throwing officers «under the bus» after the mayor, who is married to a black woman, commented immediately after the verdict that he advises his son, Dante (who is both black and white) to be careful when dealing with law enforcement.

The news frequently reports on high verdicts «awarded» by juries, but it often fails to note that, under Maryland law, those verdicts are routinely knocked down by the judge after the jury is dismissed.

Profits at the state's largest medical malpractice insurance carrier reached a record $ 57 million in 2012, two years after the Illinois Supreme Court struck down a law capping damages in jury verdicts.

Does David Lat of Above the Law have reason to be concerned after the announcement of an $ 11 million dollar plaintiffs» verdict (USA Today, 10/12/06) rendered against a Louisiana woman who posted messages on the Internet accusing her of being a «crook,» a «con artist» and a «fraud»?

Taking over a Clayton Act Anti-Trust case from a large law firm who recommended my client pay $ 200,000 in damages evolving from «Unfair Competition», and getting a directed verdict after the Plaintiff failed to make his case, and then collecting $ 80,000 from the Plaintiff in settlement of the Defendant's Counter Claim.

The Court of Appeal set aside the conviction and acquitted Villaroman after finding the trial judge had misstated the law of circumstantial evidence and that the verdict of guilt based on that evidence was unreasonable.

In a unanimous verdict, a nine - judge bench headed by Chief Justice Y.K. Sabharwal held that all laws included in the Ninth Schedule after the evolution of the basic - structure doctrine of the constitution — through the 1973 verdict of the Keshavananda Bharti case — are open to judicial review.

Following the Supreme Court's ruling in TC Heartland v. Kraft Foods, cases filed in the Eastern District of Texas fell from 36 % of all patent filings to 21 % [Debra Cassens Weiss, ABA Journal] «Quick trials, big verdicts favoring consumers, and a state law that allows nonresidents to easily join mass litigations made St. Louis a destination of choice for attorneys going after companies that do business nationwide.

The jury verdict has inconsistencies on its face that couldn't possibly be correct if the jury correctly applied the law to the facts in any reasonable manner such as awarding damages after ruling that a defendant is not liable (This happens extremely rarely); or