News
May 28, 2025
Eric A. Inglis, Partner and Co-Chair of the Litigation Department, and Matthew R. Parker, Associate, successfully defended a request to overturn a verdict granted in favor of their client.
In early 2024, Inglis and Parker won a nearly $400,000 jury verdict for their client in the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey. A New Jersey international shipping corporation brought an unjust enrichment counterclaim against a large, Dubai-based vehicle importer based on that company’s failure to fully pay for a variety of services. Schenck Price’s client, a defendant/counterclaimant, was facing a breach of contract, bailment, and conversion claim for more than $2 million. At the start of trial, Inglis successfully argued for the exclusion of evidence that led to the dismissal of over $1 million of plaintiff’s damage claim. Following a week of testimony and two days of jury deliberations, the jury awarded Schenck Price’s client approximately 90% of its claimed damages.
The plaintiff appealed Inglis and Parker’s victory and jury verdict before the District Court to the Third Circuit Court of Appeals. Plaintiff sought to have the Court of Appeals overturn a variety of rulings made by the District Judge, including a trial motion to exclude damages evidence that Inglis and Parker successfully moved to exclude from consideration by the jury. After extensive briefing by the parties, the Third Circuit has now affirmed the District Judge’s rulings and preserved the jury verdict Schenck Price won for its client.
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