· 7/17/1987
Celia Gumbs and James Gumbs v. Pueblo International, Inc. D/B/A Pueblo Supermarkets. Appeal of Pueblo International, Inc
Citations
- 823 F.2d 768
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- finding the request for damages in that case to be, at worst, harmless error
- \[A] jur[or] may not abandon analysis for sympathy for a suffering plaintiff and treat an injury as though it were a winning lottery ticket.\
- \This court has noted that our review of this question is severely limited: we may disturb the district 13 court’s determination only if the verdict is so grossly excessive as to shock the judicial conscience.\
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