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From: davidsen@steinmetz.steinmetz.ge.com (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Trial by JURY
Message-ID: <10157@steinmetz.steinmetz.ge.com>
Date: 29 Mar 88 18:19:25 GMT
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Reply-To: davidsen@kbsvax.steinmetz.UUCP (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
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In article <1886@rtech.UUCP> brent@rtech.UUCP (Brent Williams) writes:
>
>	Besides, all the spate of idiotic jury decisions means that the
>	*REAL* court decisions are made by an appellate court, usually
>	a panel of 3 old, crusty judges that are a lot harder to hoodwink
>	than a bunch of jurors.  I've heard that about 95% of the $1million
>	plus damage awards are reversed on appeal.

Excuse me? I assume that this is a typo and you meant 'reduced' rather
than reversed. If 95% of the suits were reversed everybody would be
trying to lose...

When I was on jury duty the judge told us that he couldn't throw out a
dollar amount unless it "offended the sensibilities of the court." My
impression from talking to lawyers is that many cases get settled for
less than the jury finding because neither party want to have an appeal.

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	bill davidsen		(wedu@ge-crd.arpa)
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"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me