Court Opinion

ID: 9632339
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 11:11:19.600915+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:37:40.931959
License: Public Domain

STEWART, Associate Chief Justice,
concurring:
I concur but write to note one point on the conditional nature of remittiturs and addi-turs. The majority holds that a court may not impose an additur unless it is expressly accepted as an alternative to a new trial. The same is not true in all cases for remitti-turs, as the majority position might be construed to imply. Under federal law, a remit-titur need not be conditional if it is “apparent as a matter of law that certain identifiable sums included in the verdict should not have been there.” 11 Charles Alan Wright et al., Federal Practice and Procedure § 2815 (1995). Hence in some cases, a court may impose the remittitur without the express consent of the plaintiff. Id. I would leave open the question of whether an analogous situation could present itself with respect to civil defendants in cases of additurs.