Legal Opinion
Piggue v. Glendale Police Dept.
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided November 1, 2007No. 06-55087Published
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM *
Manuel Piggue (“Piggue”) appeals from the district court’s denial of his motion for a new trial. He also challenges the sufficiency of evidence underlying the jury’s verdict and what he alleges was an error in the special verdict form. We have jurisdiction pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1291, and we affirm.
Piggue contends that it was improper for the trial court to dismiss his motion for a new trial, because the evidence was overwhelmingly in his favor. We afford “great deference to Rule 59 rulings from the district court,” Saman v. Robbins, 173 F.3d 1150, 1154 n. 4 (9th Cir.1999), and…
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