Jury Trial

OUR WEB READERS HAD THE FOLLOWING TO SAY ABOUT SOME OF LAST WEEK'S STORIES: "Police: Suspect in fatal shooting remains at large: Police believe Santa Fe man with criminal past killed teen, injured...

Byline: Nico Roesler Arthur Anaya appeared for his arraignment in a red-orange jumpsuit that looked two sizes too big. The man whose mug shot had been circulated for nearly a week in connection...

The new year brings a few new laws for employers, including law firms, though the changes are relatively minor compared to past years, according to Christie Totten, an employment law attorney with Davis...

Prosecutors in New Jersey are asking a court for the birth dates of all potential jurors for purposes of running criminal history checks on them. In a motion argued in New Jersey Superior...

The son of a nursing home patient who died after falling down a staircase while strapped in her wheelchair has been awarded $200 million against a Florida facility. 92-year-old Elvira Nunziata was able...

A 12-person jury in Texas has awarded almost $17.7 million to two women injured when the Greyhound bus they were riding flipped over while the driver was making calls on his cell phone....

Carrie Peel was trapped. After spending all her money to purchase a car, she discovered when she went to register the vehicle that she had not received the title. The dealership couldn't help...

Local governments are going to go broke if they're exposed to liability for minor defects in road surfaces. That's probably the best way to sum up yesterday's decision by the New Jersey Supreme...

A golfer will have to fork over $50,000 after a Kentucky court placed its stamp of approval on a jury's determination that he was the aggressor in a golf course scuffle. I can't...

A West Virginia jury awarded the son of a woman who died of severe dehydration after a brief stay in a nursing home $91.5 million, including an $80 million punitive damages award. The...

According to plaintiff's attorney Geoffrey N. Fieger, Dr. Andrew Jay Halperin should have known that Kimberly VanSlembrouck's baby was going to be too big to risk a vaginal birth, and he should have...

A 12-person jury in Illinois awarded $89.6 million - $80 million of it in punitives - against four defendants in a suit brought by a former pipefitter suffering from mesothelioma. Charles Gillenwater, 59,...

A Texas jury awarded $482 million to a radiologist on his claim that a medical stent manufacturer willfully infringed his patent. It took only two hours for the jury to deliberate and then...

In the third trial over a rash of hepatitis C infections caused by contaminated vials of the anesthetic propofol at Las Vegas colonoscopy and endoscopy clinics in October, a jury ordered the drug...

An Illinois federal jury has awarded a $95 million verdict - including $80 million in punitive damages - to a store worker who claimed she was sexually harassed and assaulted by a manager...

The Due Process Clause does not require a trial court to screen an out-of-court eyewitness identification for reliability unless it was procured by unnecessarily suggestive circumstances arranged by the police, the U.S. Supreme...

Here's a story that should give pause to any woman who blindly trusts that a husband or boyfriend will forever keep private those intimate photographs taken in a moment of whimsy. Yesterday, the...

Evidence of Wyeth's marketing campaign for "off-label" Prempro uses was admissible in a product liability case brought by a woman who contracted breast cancer after taking the drug, a Pennsylvania appellate court has...

A $28 million award of punitive damages was not unconstitutionally excessive in a product liability case brought by a woman who contracted breast cancer after taking hormone replacement therapy drugs, a Pennsylvania appellate...