Sentence examples for verdicts like from inspiring English sources
No. Verdicts like this are almost always reduced on appeal".
Though few analysts say huge verdicts like the $3 billion award to a smoker in California last week will ultimately be upheld, Philip Morris may eventually have to raise money to pay for similar judgments.
For those seeking reforms in the legal system since a jury tried to award Ms. Liebeck $2.9 million for the third-degree burns she suffered from the spill, little has changed despite efforts to cap multimillion-dollar verdicts like her original amount.
Merck may yet regret not seeking a general settlement—or, if there are many more verdicts like last week's, it may do so after all.Merck's woes should reinforce the recent trend in the drug industry to again put good science before marketing, and in particular to be full, frank and fast in disclosing the results of drug trials, and especially evidence of problems.
The whole 'review things in an amusing manner on the internet' thing has taken a macabre twist, with gulags in North Korea being rated on Google Maps and given verdicts like "Most exquisite checkpoint, made possible by Honourable Soldiers of Glorious Leader'.
Jury verdicts like the one yesterday are not.
Their verdict, "like meat" but "not that juicy", did not perturb Mark Post of Maastricht University, who grew the beef.
You can't call the jury rigged when it doesn't give you the verdict you want, and then suddenly call the same jury a model of Solomonian wisdom when it gives you the verdict you like.
The pollsters had predicted a fractured verdict, like the last election in 2004.
The verdict, like the latent image on a photographic film, is waiting in limbo.
The question on everyone's lips was, how could they come up with a verdict like that?
