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New Trial
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Global IP & Technology Law Blog
Trial & Error: Violation of MIL Order Not a Per Se Justification for New Trial
By Steven Auvil
The Federal Circuit’s recent opinion in Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc. v Oxford Nanopore Technologies, Inc. et al. reminds us that new trial motions are hard to win, even when…
EvidenceProf Blog
Judge Grants Keith Davis a New (Sixth) Trial
By Colin Miller
Today, Judge Sylvester Cox granted the motion of Keith Davis Jr. for a new trial (Download Motion for new trial). Amelia McDonell-Parry covered Keith's case on the Undisclosed podcast. Keith's…
Paul W. Mollica Federal Courts Blog
Sixth Circuit Reassigns Case from District Court That Failed to Give Defendants a “Meaningful Opportunity” to Investigate Juror Bias
In United States v. Lanier, No. 16-6655 (6th Cir. Feb. 11, 2021), on a third trip to the court of appeals, the panel grants the husband-and-wife defendants a new trial…
Tort Talk
Pennsylvania Supreme Court Addresses Standards For Granting New Trial on Damages
In the case of Mader v. Duquesne Light, No. 33 WAP 2019 (Pa. Nov. 18, 2020) (Op. by Todd, J.), the court addressed whether a Plaintiff was entitled to a…
Illinois Post-Conviction Blog
Trial court’s order granting a new trial reversed on appeal where trial court used wrong standard to review 2-1401 petition
By Nate Nieman
In People v. Whalen, 2019 IL App (4th) 190171, the State appealed the trial court’s order granting defendant Donald Whalen’s 2-1401 petition vacating his murder conviction and ordering a new…
EvidenceProf Blog
Sixth Circuit Grants New Trial Based on Prosecution’s Use of an Unauthenticated Video of a Masked Man Rapping & Wielding a Gun
By Colin Miller
The recent opinion of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit in United States v. Craig, 2020 WL 1482385 has to be among the craziest I've ever…
Data Law Insights
Prohibition on Expert Testimony Results in New Trial
By 1560210056-httpswww.crowelldatalaw.com
– GN Netcom, Inc. v. Plantronics, Inc., 930 F.3d 76 (3d. Cir. 2019) The Third Circuit’s decision in GN Netcom illustrates how Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 37(e) has elevated…
Family
Court Docs From Another Case Not New Evidence For New Trial
By Miles Mason
Tennessee case summary on property division and standard for new trial in divorce. Sonya Lee Westbrooks v. Earl Lavon Westbrooks The husband and wife in this Hamilton County, Tennessee, case…
EvidenceProf Blog
The Parallels Between the Malcolm Bryant Case and the Adnan Syed Case
By Colin Miller
On the evening of November 20, 1998, 16-year-old Toni Bullock was fatally stabbed in Baltimore, Maryland. 24 year-old Malcolm Bryant was subsequently convicted of her murder. Thereafter,In 2009, a petition…
Tort Talk
New Trial Granted in Post-Koken UIM Zero Verdict Case
In the Post-Koken case of Singer v. State Farm Mut. Ins. Co., No. 2015-CV-2859 (C.P. Lacka. Co. Jan. 24, 2019 Gibbons, J.), the court addressed a Plaintiff's post-trial motion for…