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Hermann cites a typical plaintiff with a fractured femur suffered by slipping on an oily factory floor in Chicago. By consulting his four-volume tables, a lawyer figures the going verdict for a fractured femur as $13,500, with 5% more expectable in Chicago, which boosts the claim to $14,175. Unfortunately for the plaintiff, the factory has movies showing that he does not limp, which indicates a 27% cut, to $10,347.75. Since juries like round numbers, he asks for $10,000-and settles...
...this overlooks such unpredictable factors as the defendant's reputation or the plaintiff's sex appeal. But the technique could solve thousands of run-of-the-mill personal injury cases, the main road block in clogged U.S. courts. Meanwhile, Hermann's researchers have uncovered useful facts-for example, that 72% of all injury verdicts are for less than...
...realm); like law clerks, they aver that "our indentures tripartite are drawn" and "sealed interchangeably." In Sonnet 35, the poet acts against himself as a friend's defender: "Thy adverse party is thy advocate." In Sonnet 46, a fair lady is partitioned-her lover's heart the plaintiff, his eye the defendant. In Henry VI, Part II, Jack Cade promises to "make it a felony to drink small beer." Desdemona reproaches herself for having falsely "indicted" Othello and "suborn'd" her soul as a witness against him. In Venus and Adonis, the temptress sounds...
...went out of his way to commend that verdict. "The article was clearly defamatory and extremely so," he said. "The jury was warranted in concluding from the persistent and continuing attitude of the officers and agents of the defendant that there was a wanton or reckless indifference to the plaintiff's rights." But if Butts refused to accept the reduction in judgment, said Judge Morgan, the court had no choice except to grant the Post a new trial...
Government lawyers, well aware that juries are prone to be generous toward an injured plaintiff, figured that the FAA might be held partially responsible anyway, whatever the CAB said. Last spring they agreed to pay 24% of all damages that were awarded. But FAA Chief Najeeb Halaby protested. After all, he argued, his agency had been exonerated...