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Exactly how does a judge in a civil case force a company to settle a 2.6 billion dollar lawsuit for a 3rd?
by scarface74 4y ago
Exactly how does a judge in a civil case force a company to settle a 2.6 billion dollar lawsuit for a 3rd?
- AnimalMuppet 4y agoA judge can in fact do that, by giving (to both sides) about what evidence is going to be admissible, and what lines of questioning are going to be considered in-bounds. Both sides do their pre-trial maneuvering, and then they can make an estimation of how the trial is likely to go. Then both sides have a pretty good idea what the landscape really is (and they know that the other side knows it to). Negotiation often happens at that point. The judge didn't force the settlement - just let people on both sides figure out what the range of likely outcomes was. Then both sides chose to give up their best-case outcome in order to avoid their worst-case outcome.