Peter Joseph Caldarera, Jr., Etc. v. Eastern Airlines, Inc., and United States of America

How courts have described this case

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

• \Our power to grant a remittitur is the same as that of the district court.\
• “The trial court may exercise judgment on the basis of his own opinion of the effect the evidence will have, considering the courtroom surroundings.”
• $250,000 maximum for plaintiff having lost his wife of more than 12 years as well as their eight-year-old and plaintiffs’ mother, and being left to raise his four-year-old by himself
• “Our review is not only hindsight, but is based on a written record with no ability to assess the impact of the statement on the jury or to sense the atmosphere of the courtroom.”
• noting \calamitous effect of the simultaneous bereavement\
• noting “calamitous effect of the simultaneous bereavement”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).