REIDER v. PHILIP MORRIS USA, INC.

No. 14-11494.

793 F.3d 1254 (2015)

Barbara REIDER, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. PHILIP MORRIS USA, INC., et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

July 15, 2015.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Elizabeth Joan Cabraser , Jordan S. Elias , Richard M. Heimann , Sarah Robin London , Jerome Mayer-Cantu , Scott Purington Nealey , Robert J. Nelson , Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP, San Francisco, CA, Frederick C. Baker , Lance V. Oliver , Motley Rice, LLC, Mount Pleasant, SC, Kathryn E. Barnett , Kenneth S. Byrd , Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP, Nashville, TN, Charles Easa Farah, Jr. , Farah & Farah, PA, Stephanie J. Hartley , Richard Lantinberg , Juanna B. McNicholas , Norwood Wilner , The Wilner Firm, PA, Jacksonville, FL, Jennifer Gross , Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP, New York, N.Y., Donald Alan Migliori , Motley Rice, LLC, Providence, RI, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Keri Arnold , Michael Craig German , Ingo Sprie, Jr. , Arnold & Porter, LLP, Scott A. Chesin , Lauren R. Goldman , Mayer Brown, LLP, John Klaus Londot , Theodore V.H. Mayer , Robb W. Patryk , Cecily C. Williams , Hughes Hubbard & Reed, LLP, New York, N.Y., Judith Bernstein-Gaeta , Khalil Gharbieh , Peter T. Grossi , Brittany E. Hamelers , David E. Kouba , M. Sean Laane , Mallori Browne Openchowski , Carolyn A. Pearce , Jonathan L. Stern , Michael S. Tye , Arnold & Porter, LLP, Paul D. Clement , Bancroft, PLLC, Washington, DC, Dana G. Bradford, II , Smith Gambrell & Russell, LLP, Robert B. Parrish , J.W. Prichard, Jr. , Moseley Prichard Parrish Knight & Jones, Patrick P. Coll , The Bedell Firm, John A. Devault, III , Bedell Dittmar Devault Pillans & Coxe, Jacksonville, FL, Andrew Brenner , Mark Jurgen Heise , Luis Eduardo Suarez , Boies Schiller & Flexner, LLP, Rafael Cruz-Alvarez , Shook Hardy & Bacon, LLP, Nicolas Swerdloff, I , Hughes Hubbard & Reed, LLP, Kelly Anne Luther , Kasowitz Benson Torres & Friedman, LLP, Miami, FL, Tim Eric Congrove , Shook Hardy & Bacon, LLP, Kansas City, MO, Bonnie C. Daboll , Cathy Ambersley Kamm , Shook Hardy & Bacon, LLP, Tampa, FL, Nathan D. Foster , Thomas W. Stoever, Jr. , Arnold & Porter, LLP, Denver, CO, Kathleen A. Gallagher , Beck Redden & Secrest, Houston, TX, Lucy E. Mason , Shook Hardy & Bacon, LLP, San Francisco, CA, Lorence Jon Bielby , John Klaus Londot , Greenberg Traurig, LLP, Tallahassee, FL, David M. Monde , Stephanie Ethel Parker , John M. Walker , John F. Yarber , Jones Day, Atlanta, GA, Joshua Reuben Brown , Greenberg Traurig, LLP, Orlando, FL, Wilfred P. Coronato , Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP, Jersey City, NJ, for Defendants-Appellees.

Before WILLIAM PRYOR and JORDAN, Circuit Judges, and ROSENTHAL, District Judge.


We hold, for the reasons which follow, that a party's post-trial claim that a jury verdict is inconsistent does not preserve for appeal the separate and legally distinct claim that the verdict was the result of an unlawful jury compromise. We therefore affirm the zero damages verdict...

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