Donnellan v. First Student, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• emphasizing that an “award for noneconomic damages *** still must be a product of the evidence”
• noting that as day-in-the-life videos are demonstrative and intended “to illustrate evidence regarding a party’s life at the time of trial,” disclosure just before trial “was not prejudicial”
• upholding an award of $6 million for a plaintiff who suffered a brain injury, lost mobility, increased pain, and depression
• upholding an award of $6 million for a plaintiff who suffered a brain injury, lost mobility, increased pain, and depression
• “We review a trial court’s admission of a day-in-the-life video for an abuse of discretion, which occurs only when no reasonable person would agree with the decision of the trial court.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).