For Fans of Civil Pro...

and followers of boneheaded lawyering: The Supreme Court has unequivocally ruled that a defendant must file a post-verdict motion for judgment as a matter of law and/or new trial to preserve the issue of the sufficiency of evidence for appeal, even if counsel moved for directed verdict during the trial. Apparently, the 10th Circuit precedents had supported the more lenient proposition. Stevens and Kennedy dissented.