Amiker v. Drugs for Less, Inc.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that a motion for a new trial is addressed to the discretion of the court and should be granted only “in exceptional cases in which the evidence preponderates heavily against the verdict.”
• holding that a motion for a new trial is addressed to the discretion of the court and should be granted only “in exceptional cases in which the evidence preponderates heavily against the verdict.”
• “When this Court reviews a decision that is within the trial court’s discretion, it first asks if the court below applied the correct legal standard.”
• new trial warranted where defendant “failed to comply with orders regarding discovery”
• successor judge vacated trial judge’s order prior to appellate court’s involvement

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).