Linda Holmes v. City of Massillon, Ohio

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• the trial judge should not substitute its “judgment of the facts and the credibility of the witnesses for that of the jury.”
• “[S]ince a reasonable juror could find for Holmes . . . we reverse the district court’s decision granting a new trial.”
• “Such an action effects a denigration of the jury system and to the extent that new trials are granted the judge takes over, if he does not usurp, the prime function of the jury as the trier of the facts.” (citation omitted)

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