{"id":24049,"date":"2015-03-31T14:41:24","date_gmt":"2015-03-31T18:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=24049"},"modified":"2015-03-31T14:41:24","modified_gmt":"2015-03-31T18:41:24","slug":"huge-jury-verdict-in-nypd-shooting-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=24049","title":{"rendered":"Huge jury verdict in NYPD shooting lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"
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City Weighs Its Response to $25.2M Shooting Verdict<\/em><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n

Andrew Denney<\/a>, New York Law Journal<\/small>

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The City of New York has yet to determine whether it will appeal a Brooklyn jury’s $25.2 million award to a man who was left paralyzed after he was shot during a 2009 arrest by a New York police sergeant.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

It’s a huge verdict. I’ve written about huge jury verdicts before,<\/a> and pointed out that the defendant — the City of New York, in this case — has the right to appeal and when verdicts are really big, they do appeal. An appeal can take quite a while to resolve itself.<\/p>\n

The way it can work is: the victim and his lawyers sit down with the City’s lawyers and negotiate a post-verdict settlement, rather than waiting for years until the Appellate Division comes up with a decision which could be to reduce the verdict amount substantially.<\/p>\n

So again and always, here’s the question: how much money equates with justice in the mind of a plaintiff?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

City Weighs Its Response to $25.2M Shooting Verdict Andrew Denney, New York Law Journal March 30, 2015 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0| The City of New York has yet to determine whether it will appeal a Brooklyn jury’s $25.2 million award to a man … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[337],"tags":[756,558,9,436,247,213,68,518],"class_list":["post-24049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal-news","tag-appeals-from-jury-verdicts","tag-jury-verdicts","tag-law-and-government-agencies","tag-law-and-the-courts","tag-legal-contingency-cases","tag-personal-injury-lawsuits","tag-settlement-negotiations","tag-settlements"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t