Sentences with phrase «overturn jury verdicts»

While the longtime critic of the Office for People with Developmental Disabilities late last year won a federal lawsuit affirming his right to criticize the agency he works for, lawyers for the state are seeking to overturn that jury verdict.

Abbott's motion to overturn the jury verdict was denied in March 2013.

The New Jersey Supreme Court reversed and remanded Borough of Harvey Cedars v. Harvey Karan and Phyllis Karan, thereby overturning a jury verdict, trial court and appellate decisions that awarded the Karans $ 375,000 for the taking of a beach replenishment easement and damages to the remainder.

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.

CAVEAT: These reasons are necessary, but not sufficient reasons to overturn a jury verdict for reasons # 1, # 2 or # 3.

Not exact matches

The question is whether an appeals court was right to overturn an $ 11 million jury verdict awarded to Snyder's father.

Mr. Silver, the former State Assembly speaker, had his initial conviction overturned last year, but a new jury arrived at the same verdict.

There are two categories of post-trial motions to decide on: motions seeking to overturn parts of the jury verdict (arguing that the judge should overrule the jury or order a new trial on a given set of issues), and motions relating to relief.

In Colorado, U.S. District Senior Judge Richard P. Matsch was so infuriated by the trial conduct of counsel for Medtronic Navigation Inc. that he had already overturned a jury's $ 51 million verdict in its favor, as The Denver Post reports.

Two years later, the West Virginia court overturned a $ 50 million jury verdict against Massey Coal Company.

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No Written Retainer Agreement, With Quantum Meruit Jury Verdict Overturned And Reduced To $ 1.8 Million Plus Some Other Deductions.

Counsel can determine on Lex Machina's motion comparator, Ravel Law's motions database or Bloomberg's Litigation Analytics how likely judges are to either overturn or modify a jury verdict.

The crown argued that much of the material about Baghdadi's benefit claims may have been known by Dizaei at the time of the trial and thus did not count as new evidence, which is needed to overturn the jury's verdict in the original trial.

Almost all verdicts overturned for reasons # 4 and # 5 are «true positives» where the jury reached an incorrect result.

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.

In those cases it is also necessary for the party that wants to overturn the verdict to «preserve» an objection to the jury instruction in question or the judge's reason, or the condition beyond the control of the parties or the court, in order to have a judge overturn the verdict or to prevail on appeal.

The key thing to observe is that jury verdicts are almost always overturned, either based upon things that hypothetically could have caused them to reach an incorrect verdict (for the reasons I've labeled # 1, # 2 or # 3) whether or not those mistakes actually caused the jury to reach the wrong verdict, or because under the circumstances it was impossible for the jury to have reached the verdict that it did (for the reasons I've labeled as # 4 and # 5).

The dispute commenced in 2010, resulted in a jury verdict awarding VirnetX $ 368 million in 2012, and was overturned on appeal in September 2014.

According to the Wall Street Journal, the federal appeals court reinstated the $ 119.6 million jury verdict in favor of Tim Cook's company in its fight against Samsung that was overturned by a U.S. circuit appeals in February.

«While we are pleased that the majority of original claims were dismissed in this case, we regret that the jury did not find for us completely on those that remained, and will vigorously pursue all options to overturn their verdict.

«While we are pleased that the majority of the original claims were dismissed in this case, we regret that the jury did not find for us completely on those that remained and will vigorously pursue all options to overturn their verdict.