Legal Opinion
Gasperini v. Center for Humanities, Inc.
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided June 24, 1996No. 95-719PublishedCited by 1,784 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Ginsburg
Under the law of New York, appellate courts are empowered to review the size of jury verdicts and to order new trials when the jury’s award “deviates materially from what would be reasonable compensation.” N. Y. Civ. Prac. Law and Rules (CPLR) § 5501(c) (McKinney 1995). Under the Seventh Amendment, which governs proceedings in federal court, but not in state court, “the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise re-examined in any Court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law.” U. S. Const., Arndt. 7. *419The…
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