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Appeals court considers argument that jury verdict awarded duplicative damages and ignored trial stipulation on loan repayment
Summary
Appellant (Min Soo Kim) argued the jury award and judgment included duplicative recoveries and that trial evidence and stipulations showed personal loan advances were to be repaid from the LLC or from future distributions rather than by personal collection. Appellant asked relief from duplicative awards and said judicial estoppel should prevent a
Attorney Greg Aceto, representing appellant Min Soo Kim, asked the Appeals Court to reverse or remit a large jury award and to address several post‑trial concerns: (1) the parties’ stipulation and trial exhibits that advances to Kim were to be repaid from the LLC or from Kim’s future distributions rather than directly from his person; (2) alleged duplicative damages across contract, fraud and fiduciary‑duty counts; and (3) asserted errors in the trial judge’s handling of overlapping claims.
Why it matters: The appeal raises whether the trial record and jury form permit duplicative recovery and how a pretrial or trial stipulation about repayment timing should affect enforcement and collection against an individual defendant.
Aceto told the panel that the trial record contained multiple written…
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