News & Analysis as of

Jury Verdicts Jury Trial Jury Instructions

Sands Anderson PC

Incomplete Appellate Record Dooms Appeal: Lessons for Appellate Practitioners

Sands Anderson PC on

The Supreme Court of Virginia taught appellate practitioners yet another hard lesson in how procedural pitfalls can scuttle otherwise compelling appeals. In Eckard v. Commonwealth, the pitfall was failing to get the complete...more

Maron Marvel

Avoiding Pitfalls of Special Interrogatories

Maron Marvel on

The use of special interrogatories given to juries to render verdicts has been said to be “admittedly fraught with many pitfalls in the potential conflicts between the general verdict and the interrogatories,” and is “nothing...more

Troutman Pepper

Correcting the Pattern: Pattern Jury Instructions Can Be Challenged

Troutman Pepper on

As any seasoned trial attorney will tell you, one of the key events during a jury trial is the reading of the jury instructions to the jury. During the reading of the instructions, for a lengthy amount of time, the jury hears...more

Pierce Atwood LLP

Mass. SJC: $3.5 Million Payday for Torrent of Errant Golf Balls Not a Fore-Gone Conclusion

Pierce Atwood LLP on

A Kingston couple was dealt a significant blow days before Christmas when the Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) set aside a jury verdict awarding them $3.5 million in damages for errant golf balls hitting their property. In...more

Melito & Adolfsen

The Johnny Depp and Amber Heard Case Show the Importance of Special Verdicts or Answers to Written Questions in Jury Verdicts

Melito & Adolfsen on

The defamation cases brought by Johnny Depp and Amber Heard against each other, entertaining as they were to many Americans, involved complex issues of law as applied to the facts alleged by the parties. For the jury to reach...more

Holland & Hart - Your Trial Message

Don’t Underestimate Just How Much Jurors Want to Reach an Independent Decision

Add this one to the list of reasons why sequestering the jury can be a problem, and more generally, to the “Juries can do strange things” category. The night before deliberations, at the end of a five-week murder trial, four...more

6 Results
 / 
View per page
Page: of 1

"My best business intelligence, in one easy email…"

Your first step to building a free, personalized, morning email brief covering pertinent authors and topics on JD Supra:
*By using the service, you signify your acceptance of JD Supra's Privacy Policy.
- hide
- hide