Angelina Imbrogno Orlando Imbrogno, Stamford Hospital v. Allen C. Chamberlin, Saint Joseph Hospital Corporation

CARDAMONE, Circuit Judge:

Obviously considering the jury’s verdict unduly generous, a trial judge cast a line into the sea of law hoping to snag a legal doctrine that would justify reducing it. Regrettably, the district court hooked into the doctrines of “set off’ or “set offfyemittitur,” neither of which provides authority for its action in decreasing that verdict by the amount of a pre-trial settlement with another defendant. A trial judge does not sit and vote as a juror; his or her personal reaction to a jury’s verdict is not a substitute for legal authority to alter that body’s decision.…