Sentences with phrase «setting jury verdicts»

Nick Rowley, who we have spoken with previously on Lawyer Monthly, has repeatedly achieved excellent outcomes for his clients, winning record - setting jury verdicts and settlements across the country.

Both Meyer and the firm he co-founded, Lubin & Meyer PC, are known for an innovative style in the courtroom and precedent setting jury verdicts and settlements including $ 40 million for a child brain injured at birth.

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In this culture / country we have a set of principles that empowers duly authorized agents to apprehend, present the alleged perpetrator for fair and speedy trial, with representation and a verdict rendered by a jury of peers.

In prerevolutionary times, he notes, juries reached verdicts and applied the law consistently «largely because men selected to juries shared a... set of ethical values and assumptions.

Being in Belgium a special meeting was set up and within 5 minutes doctors and jury gave their verdict that their little girl was better off in heaven.

During the sentencing, which lasted about 90 minutes, Caproni denied Silver's motion to set aside the jury's verdict and grant him a new trial.

Besides exposing the pros and cons of jury - based trials, «Runaway Jury» sets its sights on the relationship between firearms manufacturers and gun crime — but instead of setting forth the evidence from either side and allowing viewers to reach their own verdict on such complex issues, the film presents a highly prejudicial case, leading its audience to a conclusion that is disappointingly rightejury - based trials, «Runaway Jury» sets its sights on the relationship between firearms manufacturers and gun crime — but instead of setting forth the evidence from either side and allowing viewers to reach their own verdict on such complex issues, the film presents a highly prejudicial case, leading its audience to a conclusion that is disappointingly righteJury» sets its sights on the relationship between firearms manufacturers and gun crime — but instead of setting forth the evidence from either side and allowing viewers to reach their own verdict on such complex issues, the film presents a highly prejudicial case, leading its audience to a conclusion that is disappointingly righteous.

Lawyers in Louisville, Ky., are asking a federal judge to set aside a jury verdict exonerating a police officer in a Taser - related death because they say the jury foreman researched the case on the Internet and used what he found to sway other jurors.

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.

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.

They relied on Yates v. United States in seeking the verdict to be set aside when it is impossible to tell what ground a jury was selected when there are several grounds for conviction.

However if you get a favorable jury verdict after Allstate's apppeal this can set the state for a bad faith claim and prejudgement interest.

There is a clear distinction between: evidence (or testimony), which consists of statements of fact given by witnesses on oath (subject to prosecution for perjury), governed by the rules of evidence, and which the jury is required to consider but not accept (in the sense that a verdict which is not supported by the evidence can be set aside on appeal),...

As it was not possible for the jury to determine the truth of Thielen's testimony without cross-examining him, the court set aside the verdict of Bradshaw.

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

The jury's role is always the same - show up, be selected and sworn in, listen to the opening and closing arguments and the evidence that the judge admits under the rules of evidence, listen to the jury instructions from the judge, deliberate and render a verdict based upon that deliberation in a manner set forth on a jury verdict form that the jury is provided with by the judge, they do this for sub-minimum wage jury fees, a few free meals, and maybe a parking or transit voucher.

It is the set of instructions given at the end of the case that the jury must use to decide their verdict.

The jury verdict exceeded the amounts set out in the plaintiff's offer to settle.

Would it be correct to say that the reason why judges do not have power to set aside a jury verdict of acquittal in a criminal case is precisely that that would violate a right to a trial by jury?

«In an unusual summary opinion, without hearing oral argument, the Court today sent back to the 11th Circuit for further review its holding that a jury verdict in favor of two employees was appropriately set aside.

Thus, we might conclude that juries are best suited to determine obscenity vel non, and that jury verdicts in this area should not be set aside except in cases of extreme departure from prevailing standards.

Harris Lowry Manton LLP partner Jeff Harris and associate Yvonne Godfrey, along with Owen Murphy of Owen Murphy, P.C. and Andrew Bowen of Bowen Painter, LLC, recently set a record with an $ 18 million verdict from a Chatham County jury on behalf of their client, Ms. Joan Simmons.

The gross verdict award by the jury was set at $ 1,734,167.08.

In an earlier ruling on the merits of the case, the Federal Circuit upheld Judge Matsch's decision setting aside the jury's verdict in favor of Medtronic and granting judgment as a matter of law in favor of BrainLAB.

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

The jury deliberated for a few hours and returned a verdict in favor of the injured patient for a total of $ 650,000 in monetary damages, with interest set at 6 percent starting from the date of the injury in 2010.

In 2001, one of the firm's attorneys (along with co-counsel) obtained a record - setting $ 46 million jury verdict in Manassas, Virginia Circuit Court against Norfolk Southern in a railroad derailment, brain injury to plaintiff case.

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.

In the situation you describe, the question is whether a higher court will set aside a jury verdict because a juror interpreted the law to the other jurors.

ADDENDUM: In England, in a very recent change, by Act of Parliament under the last Labour government, Parliament abolished the double jeopardy rule, in effect allowing another court to later set - aside the Jury's verdict (i.e. in the case of an acquital).

After argument, the court concluded that the defendant was right, that there was no case for the jury, and hence set aside the verdict and directed judgment for the defendant upon the point reserved.

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.

A jury returned a verdict in favor of the Hellers on all allegations, and Marozzi and the brokerage filed a motion with the court asking the judge to set aside the verdict.

The court stated that it would not set aside the jury's negligence verdict because Marozzi had a duty to arrange for a competent inspection of the well, and the evidence supported the fact that she failed to do so.

Thus, the court stated that it would not set aside the jury's negligence verdict.

A jury returned a verdict in favor of the Buyers on all allegations, and the Salesperson and Brokerage filed a motion with the court asking the judge to set aside the verdict.