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Judge Vacates $25M Settlement Due to Clerk’s Actions

A judge in Illinois vacated a $25 million settlement awarded to the plaintiff in a personal injury case because the judge’s clerk actions.  So reports The Chicago Sun Times.

The clerk divulged the contents of a jury note to the plaintiff’s attorney—and not the defendants’ attorney—before the parties settled. The defendants in the suit are the owners of a rented boat on which the plaintiff allegedly fell and became paralyzed. Their attorney argued the note showed the jury was leaning in the defendants’ favor and that there would have been no settlement if the defendants’ side had known about the note’s existence and contents.

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