The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has revived a $1 million compensatory damages verdict in an orthopedic surgeon’s defamation case that has been ongoing for more than two decades—but the case is not over yet.

In a unanimous June 17 opinion that laid out the proper appellate standard of review regarding defamation verdicts, the justices ruled in Menkowitz v. Peerless Publications that the Superior Court, in reversing a Montgomery County trial judge’s denial of judgment notwithstanding the verdict (JNOV), failed to give appropriate deference to the trial court as factfinder.

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