Legal Opinion

McNair v. Government of the District of Columbia

District Court, District of Columbia

Decided August 27, 2015No. Civil Action No. 2012-0248PublishedCited by 1 opinion

1Opinion of the Court

MEMORANDUM OPINION

JAMES E. BOASBERG, United States District Judge

In this day of vanishing trials, when a case finally does go the distance, the jury is supposed to have the last word. No adherent to this proposition, Plaintiff Saundra McNair, whose suit a jury recently rejected, now asks for another day in court. In moving for a new trial, she asserts that several errors at the first one deprived her of a just result. As' the verdict was both correct on the merits and not infected by impropriety, the Court will deny the Motion.

I. Background

According to her , trial testimony, McNair worked for…

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