When wealthy people ask jurors to settle their battles, their lawyers run the risk of running headlong into popular sentiment against the “one percent.”
Those were the circumstances last month at a trial that pitted T. Boone Pickens against three Texas oil companies before a Reeves County jury. The litigants wanted to resolve a 10-year-old contractual dispute and after three weeks the trial concluded with the jury issuing a $146 million damages award to Pickens’ company.
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