Corporate personhood is the most widely known legal fiction and the most likely to trigger strong opinions. In jury selections that we’ve conducted, most potential jurors appear willing to treat a corporation the same as individuals.
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In Their Own Words: 4 Reasons Why Some Jurors Are Willing to Treat a Corporation and an Individual Equally
66% of the 300 California residents and potential jurors we surveyed said they would have no problem with treating an individual and a corporation equally.
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Are jurors reluctant to hold corporations responsible for the negligent and criminal acts of its employees? Judges are sometimes surprised by the biased opinions that jurors have. For example, we were working for the plaintiff in a case where an employer was being sued for the alleged negligent acts of an employee. One of the voir […]
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Millennium Tower Construction Defects: Our Findings
In December 2016, we asked 204 jury-eligible residents of San Francisco County about their opinions regarding alleged construction defects at Millennium Tower in the SoMa District of San Francisco. We found that a vast majority of our survey participants had heard something about the construction defects at Millennium Tower. After providing a short summary of […]
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