Dias v. Vanek

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that after the discharge of the jury, the only course of action to remedy an ambiguous verdict is a new trial
• “The preferred remedy of an ambiguous verdict is to have the jurors return to clarify the verdict.”
• “[determination of the proper amount of damages, if any, is within the exclusive province of the jury, since they are the sole judges of all disputed questions of fact”
• “When an ambiguous or improper verdict is returned by the jury, the court should permit the jury to correct the mistake before it is discharged.”
• the Hawaii Supreme Court quoted the ICA’s holding in Gomez that “liquidated damages may be enforced by the seller if there is a reasonable relation between the amount of payments retained and the amount of seller’s actual damages”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).