Tuesday, July 19, 2005

The Scalia and Thomas Lovechild

She sure ain't pretty.

Volger v. Blackmore (pdf): wrote the majority opinion drastically reducing the award to the family of a mother and daughter who died in a car accident, in part, she asserted, because there was not enough evidence that the daughter had experienced pain and suffering before dying. ( A fellow Fifth Circuit Judge criticized her for violating the deference to jury verdicts rule).


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