Werlein, who had already reduced the award to $22.7 million, essentially threw out the libel verdict by ordering a new trial.
He quashed the verdict and ordered a new inquest.
Judge Michael Stern granted Spencer a default verdict and ordered Sensa to pay the actor $940,000.
But in an order released on Tuesday, a judge threw out the verdict and ordered a new trial.
But on Tuesday, a federal appeals court panel upheld the verdict and ordered that Ms. Stewart begin serving her sentence.
The jury granted his unlimited release, but the trial judge stayed the verdict and ordered another trial.
The bank is appealing a jury verdict that ordered it to pay Coquina $67 million in damages, including $35 million in punitive damages.
But an appeals court overturned the verdict and ordered a retrial in 2010, saying that extensive intimidation of witnesses had led to a miscarriage of justice.
Inside, the three judges who had heard the case confirmed a postponement in their verdict and ordered Ahmed returned to the juvenile facility while they deliberated further.
(Reuters) - A U.S. judge almost halved the award in a December jury verdict that ordered Johnson & Johnson and its DePuy Orthopaedics unit to pay more than $1 billion to plaintiffs in six lawsuits who said they were injured by DePuy's Pinnacle hip implants.
