Mejia v. Cook County, Ill.

How courts have described this case

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

• “a district court can grant a motion for a new trial if the verdict was against the weight of the evidence”
• “it is possible for two judges, confronted with the identical record, to come to opposite conclusions and for the appellate court to affirm both.”
• “it is possible for two judges, confronted with the identical record, to come to opposite conclusions and for the appellate court to affirm both.”
• “it is possible for two judges, confronted with the identical record, to come to opposite conclusions and for the appellate court to affirm both.”
• “In…a motion for new trial, the district court has the power to get a general sense of the weight of the evidence, assessing the credibility of the witnesses and the comparative strength of the facts put forth at trial.”
• ex- plaining difference between Rule 50 and Rule 59 standards

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).