Comments on: Update: Port Authority seeks voiding of WTC verdict https://www.overlawyered.com/2005/12/update-port-authority-seeks-voiding-of-wtc-verdict/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Thu, 29 Dec 2005 00:21:05 +0000 hourly 1 By: Nathan S. Lord https://www.overlawyered.com/2005/12/update-port-authority-seeks-voiding-of-wtc-verdict/comment-page-1/#comment-1721 Thu, 29 Dec 2005 00:21:05 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/wpblog/?p=2890#comment-1721 How sweet of the jury to decide that someone with lots of money had to compensate the plaintiffs for their obvious hurt and damages. The defense should be allowed to tell the jurors that they themselves should pay if they believed that somebody–just anybody handy with gobs of money–should pay the plaintiffs. The jurors might just as well have gone to the NYSE, picked out some specialists, and told them to pay up.

]]> By: Deoxy https://www.overlawyered.com/2005/12/update-port-authority-seeks-voiding-of-wtc-verdict/comment-page-1/#comment-1720 Tue, 13 Dec 2005 14:12:26 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/wpblog/?p=2890#comment-1720 “asserting that he would be justified in overturning a defense verdict should the jury return one”

Wow – can a judge actually do that? Assert it directly to the jury like that, I mean. If so, WHAT is the point of the jury again?!?

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