Erious Johnson, an assistant corporation counsel, said the city would appeal the civil verdict.

It was the second civil verdict against the Ku Klux Klan in two years.

Under the law, the issue of liability for false and defamatory statements was settled by the jury in its civil verdict on July 13.

Some of the cases are essentially symbolic, ending in huge civil verdicts that may never be collected.

His death resulted in a $7 million civil verdict that led to bankruptcy for the United Klans of America.

On January 28, 2011, Scrushy lost his appeal of the civil verdict.

It is the final court of appeal for criminal and civil verdicts.

This is the largest civil financial verdict ever against a Hollywood studio.

Christopher Darden deemed the civil verdict "a small measure of closure."

But people who have always believed Simpson guilty took the civil verdict as vindication of that belief.