Large jury verdicts are routinely reduced or overturned on appeal
Evidence
Phillips read aloud an account in The Wall Street Journal about a lawsuit concerning a woman who had died of toxic shock syndrome. The jury had returned a verdict of ten million dollars, which the trial judge reduced to $1.3 million. On appeal, the verdict was overturned. The woman’s survivors had gotten nothing. — Jonathan Harr, A Civil Action, 2735
Categorization
- corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Jonathan Harr, A Civil Action, 2735
- XREF: connects to: Sanctions for litigation misconduct are frequently reversed or modified on appeal — Lawyers Acting Badly, or Not? Misconduct in IP Litigation; Fewer than 13 percent of trial court decisions are appealed — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 1461; Capital verdicts are often reversed due to inadequate counsel and condemned innocents — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 2050 (+2 more)