Debbie Floyd v. Larry Laws, and City of Sherwood, a Municipal Corporation

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that “it would be a violation of the seventh amendment right to jury trial for the court to disregard a jury’s finding of fact”
• holding that “it would be a violation of the seventh amendment right to jury trial for the court to disregard a jury’s finding of fact”
• holding that the court has a duty under the Seventh Amendment to harmonize the jury’s answers if possible
• holding that the district court must dismiss a jury’s “special findings issued in violation of the [district] court’s express instructions” as “surplusage, as a matter of law”
• holding interrogatories submitted to a jury were a special verdict because they were declared as such by the trial court
• indicating that a trial court has the authority to “resubmit[] [a] special verdict to the jury, provided the jurors have not been discharged.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).