I highlight these defense-verdict cases not because I think the jurors were right or wrong -- I have no idea how I would interpret the evidence, I only know press reports on this case -- but to point out that a San Francisco jury, begged for relief by sympathetic, impoverished plaintiffs, sitting in judgment of an immensely profitable defendant that's part of a hated industry, in consideration of facts that turn the stomach and inflame the passion, nonetheless still held in favor of the defendant.
Keep that in mind the next time some says that dumb jurors just take rich people's money and throw it at sympathetic plaintiffs.
Yes. Respect the jury's decision, however it comes out. They have the most difficult job in the room.
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