"verdict" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The police official's son, now a doctor, won a libel verdict against The Inquirer in 1985 on grounds the newspaper had wrongly implicated him in the killing.
- An all-white jury awarded him all he had demanded in damages: $500,000, the largest libel verdict in Alabama history.
- A Federal judge in Houston yesterday threw out most of a $222.7 million award against Dow Jones & Company in what was the largest libel verdict in history.
- The aftermath of the libel verdict was reflected yesterday in Gtech's shares, which fell $1.50, to $27.50, a 52-week low, in heavy trading.
- The case that resulted in the largest libel verdict in history was tainted by the deception of the plaintiffs, a Federal district judge said yesterday.
- The court majority held (6 to 5) that this observation was privileged as a statement of opinion and could not justify a libel verdict.
- It is relatively unusual for a large libel verdict to be upheld on appeal, experts say.
- This is the second time Mr. Sprague has won a libel verdict against The Inquirer over the articles.
- "The case is such a complicated factual, emotional and legal situation that it is difficult to say the libel verdict reflects just the facts of the case," she said.
- In 1997, Werlein reduced what was at the time "the largest libel verdict in history", a $222.7 million award against Dow Jones & Company, to $22.7 million.
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