trialbyHarry

Jury Consultant

[trialbyHarry @TrialByHarry]

Update: we've been "refueling" at LAX for over 90 minutes. It's now taken our pilot over 6 hours to get from Atlanta to Burbank and counting. Because she landed at the wrong airport.

[trialbyHarry @TrialByHarry]

This is without a doubt the dumbest flight experience I've had, courtesy of @Delta

I paid much more to fly to Burbank rather than LAX. Our plane was feet from landing in Burbank, then pulled up because, according to the captain "it got a little gusty."

But it gets much worse

[trialbyHarry @TrialByHarry]

Instead of circling and landing at Burbank 10 min later, we spent 20 minutes flying to LAX to "refuel." Then to fly back to Burbank. Where my wife has been waiting to pick me up. I doubt we'll be back for at least an hour or more.

[trialbyHarry @TrialByHarry]

@3_emmy_zara @derublaw A nurse was fired for complaining about understaffing and patient safety complaints at a hospital

[trialbyHarry @TrialByHarry]

@Samuel_Miller @meghanncuniff 9 out of 12 jurors

[trialbyHarry @TrialByHarry]

@FreeSpkr @meghanncuniff There will be additional punitive damages given by this jury, which could be far larger

[trialbyHarry @TrialByHarry]

@shittyschiff @meghanncuniff The attorney for the plaintiffs (Mark Lanier) is a conservative, Republican pastor from Texas. Kenneth Starr worked at his firm a few years ago.

[trialbyHarry @TrialByHarry]

@minakimes @Chase_Senior Why would someone care about a co-client of their agent? Would that make me biased in favor of someone who goes to the same dentist or CPA as me?

[trialbyHarry @TrialByHarry]

@dillonliam Look up the recent civil jury verdict against him in 2023. He was found liable in Los Angeles Superior Court for sexually abusing his young male relatives.

[The Associated Press @AP]

New Mexico man awarded $412 million medical malpractice payout for botched injections https://t.co/bOqrNMR3Op

[Law360 @Law360]

A California jury has awarded $34.7 million to a former Walmart truck driver, finding that the retailer defamed him when it falsely accused him of fraud and fired him after he was injured on the job and filed a worker's compensation claim. https://t.co/1ibYyvC7WK

[trialbyHarry @TrialByHarry]

What David said

[David deRubertis @derublaw]

Wednesday this week, after a 4 week trial, our San Bernardino jury returned a $34.7 million employment defamation verdict against Walmart. Mohamed Eldessouky and I represented Jesse Fonseca, a 14 year Walmart truck driver. Jesse lived and breathed Walmart and was as devoted an employee as there can be. But after his semi-truck was rear ended by another semi, he needed to take a worker’s compensation leave to get treatment. Jesse, an honest man who acts with integrity, told Walmart‘s work comp folks that he was taking two pre-planned family vacations…one was RV camping. Instead of acting with integrity and telling Jesse Walmart thought he should not take the trips, Walmart’s work comp adjuster from Sedgwick had surveillance done on Jesse. The surveillance simply saw Jesse bending for a matter of minutes and driving his RV camper. This triggered an internal Walmart fraud investigation. The internal fraud investigator found Jesse to be honest and credible; they found no fraud. Despite this, consistent with Walmart’s policy for this situation, the fraud investigator’s report was turned over to Walmart‘s ethics department. The ethics department then falsely concluded that Jesse had engaged in acts of “intentional dishonesty” which was supposedly an “integrity” violation under Walmart’s ethics policy. Jesse was then terminated based on this false accusation of an “integrity” violation. We showed at trial that Jesse did not violate any policy — let alone, an “integrity” policy. Instead, Jesse’s termination based on this malicious defamation resulted from a policy to defame created by Walmart which took innocent behavior or simple misunderstanding and spun it into a false accusation of “intentional dishonesty” so that Walmart could terminate injured truckers like Jesse. This diligent jury saw the truth, quickly agreed that this was malicious defamation and awarded fair and reasonable compensation…$1.2 million lost wages and benefits and $8.5 million in non-economic harm. It also agreed Walmart needed to be punished to teach it a lesson…returning a $25 million punitive damages verdict. It was an honor to represent Jesse, a true person of integrity, and to speak with the jurors after their verdict. The jurors agreed that Walmart lacked integrity…not Jesse. Thank you to Mohamed Eldessouky for asking me to try this case with him, Harry Plotkin for his always amazing work as the best jury consultant in the biz, Leslie Gomez for being my indispensable trial partner and trial tech extraordinary (aka: cut man) Joseph Repking. #walmart #defamation #injuredworkers #truckers #walmarttrucker #walmarttruckdriver #walmartworkers #juryverdict

[Edvard Pettersson @edpettersson]

Former truck driver wins $34.7 million defamation verdict against Walmart @courthousenews
https://t.co/WLrboCp0aL

[trialbyHarry @TrialByHarry]

@Variety Defense verdict. Mattel cleared of all allegations by the jury on Thursday afternoon.

[David deRubertis @derublaw]

Plaintiff lawyers…join us tomorrow (Tuesday, July 2nd) for this case analysis webinar breaking down our $20 million failure to accommodate verdict against ⁦@Marriott⁩ https://t.co/6zuoB9cg4F

[trialbyHarry @TrialByHarry]

Well done, @AmericanAir! Stranding 100 5th graders at LAX for 9 hours for no good reason.

https://t.co/Yk9euyoij3

[trialbyHarry @TrialByHarry]

Warning: @SouthwestAir doesn't respect its customers enough to notify them when flight times change. My flight was delayed until 6:35 pm, so as I waited at home with my family, the time "changed" to 3:58 p.m. No text or notification. Now I'm missing the flight. Thanks

[trialbyHarry @TrialByHarry]

@ryanclinton 100%. There's nothing like our jury system to empower the community to change the behavior of corporations, government agencies, or private individuals.

[trialbyHarry @TrialByHarry]

Despite @united telling me that my 7:15 a.m. flight was delayed 2 1/2 hours due to "wind" at SFO, there's an 8:15 a.m. Alaska Airlines flight to SFO that just boarded. I guess @united has more wind than other airlines. Hot air, I guess.

[trialbyHarry @TrialByHarry]

I rarely post, but when I do it's only to call out irresponsible companies like
@United
... who just delayed my work flight 2 1/2 hours less than 20 min before takeoff. The good reason? "Air traffic congestion." Why do companies think it's ok to lie to customers?