Judge Denies Couple’s, Window Maker’s Requests For New Trial

Mealey's (August 27, 2019, 8:53 AM EDT) -- BATON ROUGE, La. — A federal judge in Louisiana on Aug. 16 denied motions filed by a couple, as well as the maker of allegedly defective windows, to alter a jury’s verdict or order a new trial, holding that the jury did not err in finding that the couple’s redhibitory defect claim was untimely and that the window maker should pay $335,000 for breaching the express warranty for the windows (Ronald Leo, et al. v. Jeld-Wen Inc., No. 16-cv-00605, M.D. La., 2019 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 139358)....