The coronavirus pandemic halted most jury trials of patent disputes as courts closed across the country — except in Texas, where socially distanced juries have churned out a series of multimillion-dollar verdicts over the past year.
“Jurors don’t have a lot of tolerance for nonsense now, because they’re literally putting their lives on the line to do their civic duty,” Robert Hirschhorn, a veteran Texas jury consultant, said in an interview. “They also have all this pent-up frustration from everything during the pandemic.”
