Judge overturns $4.7 billion verdict in "Sunday Ticket" case against NFL

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

2. Why even waste the jurors' time?

The underlying message is: take weeks from your life to go through the never-ending procedures involved with being selected for the jury (voir dire), listen attentively to hours of testimony, spend even more hours of evaluating and discussing the evidence and arriving at a verdict, spend additional hours determining a fair and reasonable amount of damages --

only to have the f*cking judge throw the whole thing out the window because of something that could have been resolved on a motion for directed verdict before the jury even received its instructions.

I think jury trials should be reserved for criminal matters. For lawsuits to determine civil matters jurors should be paid a reasonable amount -- $200 - $500 daily -- and decide for themselves whether they want to get involved in a purely personal (corporations are people, my friend) dispute.