[frithguild]

Would you subject yourself and your family to that for $25 million?

That my FRiend violates the Golden Rule. If you made that argument in my state, my objection would be sustained. Just how much would you price it at?

Not $25.8 mln. This is a verdict that should schock the judicial conscience and be found to be a miscarriage of justice.

We don't need tort reform. We need jury reform.

[Iwo Jima]

In Texas we can argue the Golden Rule, but I don't. We can't ask the jury to put themselves in the shoes of the parties, which is basically what I did to shrinkermd, who has yet to respond.

What can be done in an actual trial is vastly different from what can be done on a website. shrinkmd made a statement which I asked him to apply to himself and his family as a test of his sincerity. That's fair.

Why do you say that $25 million shocks the conscience? Have you ever seen what a hemorrhagic stroke can do to a person? I have. Do you know what the proven damages were? I don't.

Of course, you know that the $25 million is just a verdict not a judgment. There's a big difference.

As to your statement that we don't need tort reform, we need jury reform, I disagree. We need certain types of tort reform such as for class actions and products liability. I don't know what type of "jury reform" you advocate, but I think that juries do they job reasonably well most of the time and many erroneous jury verdicts are attributable to flawed jury instructions and evidentiary rulings.