Court Opinion

ID: 9489729
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 13:22:34.846078+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:53:40.891958
License: Public Domain

SELYA, Circuit Judge
(concurring).
I join fully in Judge Torres’ comprehensive opinion. It is, however, unfortunate that neither attorney suggested that the verdict form require the jury to report the results of its deliberations count by count. Though, ordinarily, little can be gained by crying over spilt milk, past mistakes sometimes teach valuable lessons. Thus, I write separately to emphasize, for the benefit of the trial bench and bar in days to come, that the need for retrial may well have been avoided in this instance by the simple expedient of taking a separate verdict on each statement of claim. I commend that practice to district judges in future multi-count cases.