{"id":1813,"date":"2024-07-17T16:27:51","date_gmt":"2024-07-17T16:27:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/mo-court-reverses-7-7-million-verdict-for-billion-dollar-company-comments\/"},"modified":"2024-07-17T16:27:51","modified_gmt":"2024-07-17T16:27:51","slug":"mo-court-reverses-7-7-million-verdict-for-billion-dollar-company-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/mo-court-reverses-7-7-million-verdict-for-billion-dollar-company-comments\/","title":{"rendered":"Mo. Court Reverses $7.7 Million Verdict for &#8216;Billion-Dollar Company&#8217; Comments"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>\n<p>A Missouri appellate court\u00a0reversed a\u00a0$7.7 million jury verdict against a major tool industry leader, concluding that the trial court should have granted its\u00a0motion for mistrial after opposing counsel repeatedly\u00a0referred to Stanley Fastening Systems as a \u201cbillion-dollar company,\u201d in violation\u00a0of\u00a0an order prohibiting any argument regarding\u00a0the company\u2019s financial status.<\/p>\n<p>The three-judge panel of the Eastern District of Missouri Court of Appeals agreed with Stanley and remanded the case for a new trial, according to a\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 16 opinion<\/a>\u00a0by Judge Kurt S. Odenwald.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Missouri appellate court\u00a0reversed a\u00a0$7.7 million jury verdict against a major tool industry leader, concluding that the trial court should have granted its\u00a0motion for mistrial after opposing counsel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1814,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2539,678,413,143,1159,2294,395],"class_list":["post-1813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-billiondollar","tag-comments","tag-company","tag-court","tag-million","tag-reverses","tag-verdict"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}