Sentence examples for excessive verdict from inspiring English sources

The jury awarded an excessive verdict.

"It's one of these cases where it will take a couple more high-profile deaths until one of these companies gets hit with an excessive verdict and then decides to change their internal policies".

Lawyers representing corporate defendants had argued strenuously for the standard of review -- called "de novo review" -- that the court adopted today, saying that thorough appellate reviews would help curb excessive verdicts and bring consistency to an area of law in which variations in results have been wide and unpredictable.

The real cause of the excessive verdicts must be the jurors who don't understand the consequences of their largesse.

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Mr. Jensen's hopes sank this week when a three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, in San Francisco, unanimously ruled that the $5 billion verdict was excessive and remanded the case to Federal District Court in Alaska for reconsideration.

While Comair challenged this verdict as excessive, on April 2, 2010, Judge Forester overruled Comair's objections and upheld the verdict.

The company says it obeyed federal law by labeling its cigarettes with the surgeon general's warning about tobacco products, and contends that the $10.1 billion verdict was arbitrary and excessive.

Outside the courthouse, Mr. Gray's lawyer, Harold Levy, said he would appeal the verdict and the sentence as excessive.

Heywood's family accepted the official verdict of death due to excessive alcohol, UK authorities raised no concerns and he was cremated a few days later.

Five weeks after the verdict, Judge Phillips ruled it "excessive" and said it appeared "to have been given under the influence of passion and prejudice," adding that "the evidence was insufficient to support the verdict".