The New Jersey Supreme Court ruled Monday that trial judges should not rely on their “feel of the case” when deciding whether to reduce juries’ damages awards.
In a unanimous ruling, the court repudiated its five-year-old ruling that said judges could rely on their experiences as attorneys in private practice and their years on the bench to determine whether verdicts are unusually or unjustly high and need to be trimmed.
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