Litigation
Jan. 26, 2007
2006 Top 10 Plaintiffs Verdicts
The Daily Journal presents its annual list of California’s top plaintiffs verdicts. The biggest verdict, $306.9 million and counting, involves the infringement of a semiconductor. The 10th-largest verdict, $18.5 million to a man who has a rare form of lung cancer after working with an asbestos-based sealant in the 1970s, is $8 million larger than the 10th-largest verdict of 2005. Some of these verdicts have been reduced. The rest are poised under the knives of appellate courts. But for a few brief moments this year, these plaintiffs and their lawyers were allowed to bask in the glow of a big number.
In the first phase of a patent-infringement trial, a jury in U.S. District Court in San Jose awarded Rambus Inc. $307 million in damages in April 2006 after concluding that South Korean chip maker Hynix Semiconductor Inc. infringed 10 of Rambus' patents.
The case is far from over, though. A San Jose federal judge reduced the jury's verd...
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