Vadnais v. American Family Mutual Insurance

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that a district court may not “order a new trial on the basis of suspected jury prejudice in the absence of evidence of alleged misconduct or an excessive or insufficient damage award”
• reversing the district court’s order granting a new trial based on passion or prejudice where it appeared that the district court only speculated as to the possibility of prejudice because specific examples or instances of prejudice were not cited in the record

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).