The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has vacated a $1.8 million jury verdict because of potential jury taint.
In a unanimous multipronged ruling on Oct. 6, a Federal Circuit panel vacated a jury verdict of trade secrets misappropriation and breach of fiduciary duty in favor of weapons accessory maker Atlantic Research Marketing Systems Inc. and reversed the trial court’s subsequent denial of defendant Stephen Troy’s mistrial motion. The court ruled that Judge Patti Saris of the District of Massachusetts failed to conduct an adequate investigation into jury prejudice after a juror brought a clamp from home into the jury room to illustrate a point about the firearm accessory technology at issue in the case.
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