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Any Judicial Reduction Of Jury Verdict Is Unconstitutional

This trap appears as a wrong-answer choice in 1 active question. Spotting how it is built is the repair: read each example's “why it's attractive” before the “why it's wrong.”

Subject distribution

  • Civil Procedure1

Example wrong choices

  • 22756_hannahs-conference-verdict · CIVIL_PROCEDURE · Choice ANo, because forcing the plaintiff to accept a potentially lower award violates the Seventh Amendment.

    Why it's wrong

    Choice A is not the credited answer for this item.

  • 22756_hannahs-conference-verdict · CIVIL_PROCEDURE · Choice CNo, because there was no indication the jury's award was so excessive as to “shock the conscience.”

    Why it's wrong

    Choice C is not the credited answer for this item.

  • 22756_hannahs-conference-verdict · CIVIL_PROCEDURE · Choice DYes, because the court could simply lower the jury's award if it chose to do so.

    Why it's wrong

    Choice D is not the credited answer for this item.

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