Court procedures allow judges to alter jury verdicts based upon properly filed post-judgment motions. These motions include JNOV and new trial, both of which are mentioned by your authors. There are other post-trial motions including remittiture and additure, where judges can reduce monetary awards given by juries (remittiture) and/or increase the awards given (additure). However, Alabama is one of the only states in the Union to allow judges to grant remittiture motions reducing verdicts but does not allow additure at all. Do you feel that this practice in Alabama of not allowing judges to add to verdicts while allowing judges to reduce money judgments is fair? Why or why not?

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The practice in Alabama which allows judges to grant remittitur motions but not additur motions rais... View the full answer