Sentences with phrase «supported jury verdict»

A federal appellate court has considered whether the evidence supported a jury verdict against a brokerage for its role in negotiations for a commercial building.

Ohio court finds that evidence supported jury verdict that dual agent failed to properly advise client about certain conditions on the property.

Ohio court finds that evidence supported jury verdict that dual agent failed to properly advise client about certain conditions on the...

The court stated that it could support a jury verdict which had a reasonable basis.

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All of the clergy in the courtroom project have agreed to support the jury's verdict in the racially - charged case, which sparked large rallies and marches led by civil rights figures like the Rev. Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson.

A list of the questions asked by the jury to the judge includes one example in which they asked if a juror can «come to a verdict based on a reason that was not presented in court and has no facts or evidence to support it».

An amendment to the Oregon Constitution prohibits judicial review of the amount of punitive damages awarded by a jury «unless the court can affirmatively say there is no evidence to support the verdict.»

The appellate court judges are required to presume the jury's decisions at trial were correct — as long as the record on appeal contains evidence to support the jury's verdict.

In affirming, both the State Court of Appeals and the State Supreme Court rejected Honda's argument that the punitive damages award violated due process because it was excessive and because Oregon courts have no power to correct excessive verdicts under a 1910 amendment to the State Constitution, which prohibits judicial review of the amount of punitive damages awarded by a jury «unless the court can affirmatively say there is no evidence to support the verdict.»

The 1910 amendment, by its terms, did not eliminate those substantive standards but altered the procedures of judicial review:» [N] 0 fact tried by a jury shall be otherwise re-examined in any court of this state, unless the court can affirmatively say there is no evidence to support the verdict» (emphasis added).

Well, it may have taken over half a decade, but Jose Padilla's long, strange, Kafka-esque journey through the legal system has finally come to some resolution, with today's jury verdict finding Padilla guilty of supporting Islamic terrorism overseas.

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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),...

Provided research, briefing and trial support, including drafting of jury instructions, trial brief, and motions in limine, in a case in Mayes County, Oklahoma, in which a defense verdict was obtained in favor of a loss prevention investigator who was an employee of a shoe retailer.

The firm's successes include the top patent infringement award ever issued by a U.S. jury; the nation's first civil liability verdict against a foreign bank for providing material financial support to terrorists; and one of the top business fraud verdicts ever awarded in Dallas County.

As long as there is evidence to support the jury's theory of the case then the verdict should stand.

See, e.g., Langlois v. Wolford, 539 S.E. 2d 565, 567 - 68 (2000)(denying motion for directed verdict on issue of punitive damages because evidence that the negligent driver left the scene of an accident, was intoxicated, and had a history of DUI and other traffic violations was sufficient to support the jury's punitive damages award).

While no jury verdict or sum of money can undo the terrible damage, compensation can help support your family and assist in the grieving...

Nor can it succeed without a supporting cast of highly trained, Ivy League educated associates and junior partners who enable the great trial lawyers to bring home jury verdicts in the $ 2 billion antitrust actions entrusted to us by our Fortune 50 client.

Similarly, proportionality review does not demand that every variance be supported by a «fact» that is not encompassed within the jury verdict or guilty plea.

Jury nullification is also only effective, for the most part, in criminal cases, as a jury verdict in a civil case can be reversed if under the correct law no evidence in the record supports the verdJury nullification is also only effective, for the most part, in criminal cases, as a jury verdict in a civil case can be reversed if under the correct law no evidence in the record supports the verdjury verdict in a civil case can be reversed if under the correct law no evidence in the record supports the verdict.

A rare coalition of conservative and liberal justices ruled 6 - 3 in Southern Union Co. v. United States, 11 — 94, that the Sixth Amendment right to a jury trial requires a jury to determine facts to support a sentence imposed after a guilty 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.

The court found that if there was substantial evidence in support of the jury verdict, then it must be upheld.