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Tennessee jury verdicts were down substantially in 2010-11, according to data released by the Tennessee Administrative Office of the Courts.  Total damages awarded  in tort cases in state court were only $32,051,326, down by a little over 60% from a year earlier, when the total damages awarded  was over $91,000,000.…

 It was almost two years ago that I wrote about  Wright v. Wright,  No. M2007-00378-COA-R3-CV  (Tenn. Ct. App. Dec. 12, 2007).  (Post 1)  (Post 2)   Wright 1 is an opinion authored by Judge Walter Kurtz that reversed a decision to award a plaintiff’s lawyer a one-third contingent fee in a…