Volume 31:3 (Spring 2008)

<p>In Geressy v. Digital Equipment Corp., Judge Weinstein used a normal (&quot;bell&quot;) curve in determining whether damages awarded by a jury were excessive under New York's statutory &quot;material deviation&quot; standard. In this Article, the author's take on Judge Weinstein's invitation to make refinements to his remittitur calculation. To that end, the authors examine Tchebycheff's Inequality as a more effective statistical approach when there is a skewed sample population.</p>