Credit: ROMAN/Adobe Stock Federal Judge Gives Plaintiff a Choice: Slash 'Grossly Excessive' $1M Jury Award by $900K or Retry Case
"She may have suffered distress from the events in question, but an award of $1,000,000 is grossly excessive under the circumstances," U.S. District Judge Joshua D. Wolson of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania wrote.
July 17, 2023 at 03:05 PM
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A Pennsylvania federal judge has given a plaintiff the option to either slash her jury-awarded compensatory damages from $1 million to $100,000 or retry the case after concluding the original award did not bear a rational relationship to the evidence at trial.
In a July 12 opinion, U.S. District Judge Joshua D. Wolson of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania granted the trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Penn) a new trial in a tenure discrimination dispute with a former professor, Cathrine Veikos, unless Veikos agreed to have her $1 million emotional distress damages remitted to $100,000.
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