(redirected fromCivil trial) Thesaurus Medical Legal Encyclopedia Related to Civil trial:Jury trial law·suit (lô′so͞ot′) n. An action or proceeding other than a criminal prosecution brought in a court of law or equity. American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Editi...
Judge Craig Karlan, who had promised one juror when she agreed to serve that she could leave after Friday for a prior commitment, decided over the objections of Cosby’s attorneys to accept and read the verdict on the questions the jury had answered. But he had to change course when deputi...
Reports that property rights advocates won a right to a federal jury trial in a land-use case. Jury verdict against the city of Monterey, California; Fractured opinion of the Court regarding the developer's claim; What the Court denied to property rights advocates.Savage...
the Los Angeles County jury had come to agreement on whether Cosby had sexually assaulted plaintiff Judy Huth at the Playboy Mansion when she was 16 in 1975, and whether Huth deserved any damages. In all, they had answered eight of nine questions on their verdict form, all but one that as...
The average time from the filing of the complaint to the jury verdict was 2.5 years. These are some of the main findings from a study of civil jury trial cases in State courts involving tort, contract, and real property rights claims the three types that together comprise the vast majority...
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it was the first time I had ever served, and lucky me, it was a criminal trial instead of a civil trial. A lot of the same things applied however, like jury selection, being impaneled, etc. It was a murder case and we spent eight hours in deliberation before reaching a verdict. ...
Let’s fast forward to the trial results. The jury ended up awarding a total of $50,000.00 in compensatory damages to Mr. Souter. Here’s the jury verdict form: Souter-Verdict-FormDownload In my phone conversation with Mr. Souter, he was actually very unhappy with the verdict, both in ...
After two days of deliberations in which they reached verdicts on nearly all of the questions put before them, jurors in a civil trial who were deciding onsexual abuse allegations against Bill Cosbywill have to start from scratch on Monday. By the end of the court day Friday, the ...