Civil Litigation
Aug. 22, 2022
$85M wrongful death award against sheriff is reversed
Evidence didn’t support large award, U.S. District Judge Marilyn Huff in San Diego wrote.
A federal judge ordered a new damages trial in the wrongful death case brought by the family of a man killed by San Diego County deputy sheriffs, saying the evidence didn’t support an $85 million award handed up by a jury in March.
“The size of the jury’s wrongful death award is far out of proportion to the evidence and indicates that the jury may have impermissibly included in the award some measure of plaintiffs’ emotional distress, or so...
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