Tierco Maryland, Inc. v. Williams

HARRELL, Judge.

It should surprise no one that a fundamental jurisprudential principle is that irrelevant considerations may not be a proper basis for a jury’s verdict. In this civil action asserting theories of recovery based solely on assault, battery, false imprisonment, and negligent supervision, as submitted to the jury, the Respondents/Plaintiffs repeatedly raised at trial, through argument and testimony, insinuations of racial discrimination by at least some of the corporate defendant’s alleged employees. Because the record demonstrates a significant probability that the jury’s award to…