The power of suggestion in a Kansas courtroom.
Can it lead it to runaway jury verdicts?
Or does it lead to better informed juries?
The Kansas Legislature is grappling with how to address complaints about trial lawyers who float amounts for noneconomic damages in order to sway juries in civil litigation.
Representatives of small business, medicine, transportation, insurance and agriculture are lining up for a proposal banning lawyers from suggesting amounts for noneconomic damages to juries.
It's been called "jury anchoring," where a jury is given a . . .
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