Perhaps you've heard of the term “runaway jury,” but what does it mean? Clark Neily, Vice President for Criminal Justice at the CATO Institute explains the role of judges in civil cases and outlines how judges can play a bigger role in reining in runaway jury verdicts.

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Related Links:

Punitive Damages: How Juries Decide
https://fedsoc.org/commentary/publications/deborah-j-lafetra-reviews-punitive-damages-how-juries-decide-by-cass-r-sunstein-reid-hastie-john-w-payne-david-a-schkade-and-w-kip-viscusi

Our Broken Justice System
https://www.cato.org/policy-report/mayjune-2019/our-broken-justice-system

The Civil Jury: Constitutional Liberty or Unhealthy Romance?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcHZcctFWvc

Is Tort Reform Conservative?
https://fedsoc.org/commentary/videos/is-tort-reform-conservative-event-video

A Study’s Verdict: Jury Awards Are Not Out of Control
https://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/06/us/a-study-s-verdict-jury-awards-are-not-out-of-control.html

Differing Views:

“Deep Pocket Jurisprudence” and Meaningful Civil Justice Reform
https://fedsoc.org/commentary/podcasts/deep-pocket-jurisprudence-and-meaningful-civil-justice-reform-podcast

Media Reporting of Jury Verdicts: Is the Tail (of the Distribution) Wagging the Dog?
https://escholarship.org/content/qt7bh6914b/qt7bh6914b.pdf

Empirical Research and Civil Jury Reform
https://scholarship.law.cornell.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1414&context=facpub

Research on Tort Reform
https://www.rand.org/topics/tort-reform.html