Interesting legal chronology in this case: Plaintiff goes all the way through a jury trial, a jury of her peers finds in her favor on BOTH claims, and THEN the judge decides unilaterally to TOSS OUT the jury decision because he did not agree with it, tossing out one claim completely and ordering a new trial on the other claim. I'm not sure what basis the judge had for this, but undermining a jury verdict like that seems entirely unAmerican to me. So the Plaintiff has to go ALL THE WAY through a SECOND jury trial, in which the second jury finds against her on the one remaining claim and she loses, and then all the way through an appeal in which the appeals court reverses the second jury's finding against her and reinstates her one remaining claim--none of which would have happened if the judge would not have gone against the original jury in the first place. What a headache!
Virginia Tech Settles Lawsuit Over Retaliation - Times Dispatch
