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IMBROGNO v. CHAMBERLIN

No. 1475, Docket 95-9101.

89 F.3d 87 (1996)

Angelina IMBROGNO; Orlando Imbrogno, Plaintiffs-Appellants, Stamford Hospital, Plaintiff, v. Allen C. CHAMBERLIN, Defendant, Saint Joseph Hospital Corporation, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided July 12, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Philip M. French, Stamford, Connecticut, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Paul E. Pollock, Bridgeport, Connecticut (Bai, Pollock & Dunnigan, P.C., Bridgeport, Connecticut, of counsel), for Defendant-Appellee.

Before: CARDAMONE, ALTIMARI, and PARKER, Circuit Judges.

CARDAMONE, Circuit Judge:

Obviously considering the jury's verdict unduly generous, a trial judge cast a line into the sea of law hoping to snag a legal doctrine that would justify reducing it. Regrettably, the district court hooked into the doctrines of "set off" or "set off/remittitur," neither of which provides authority for its action in decreasing that verdict by the amount of a pre-trial settlement with another defendant. A trial judge does not sit and vote...

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