A woman who twice won multimillion-dollar jury verdicts in a federal civil rights suit only to see them significantly reduced by the judge had it happen again on Aug. 22, when the most recent verdict, for $4 million, was reduced to $1.25 million.
The latest remittitur marked the second time that U.S. District Judge Dickinson Debevoise of the District of New Jersey in Newark has knocked down $4 million in compensatory damages awarded to plaintiff Sara Lesende in Lesende v. Borrero.
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