Welcome back to the Law School Toolbox podcast! In this week’s episode, we’re focusing on a topic from Civil Procedure — specifically, motions for judgment as a matter of law and motions for new trial, where the moving party is asking the court to take certain issues away from the jury.
In this episode we discuss:
- The two types of motions for judgment as a matter of law
- The standard for granting a motion for judgment as a matter of law
- Filing and granting motions for new trial
- Analyzing a hypo encompassing the above concepts
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