Wang

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA SAN JOSE DIVISION 6 GARY WANG, Case No. 20-cv-00569-BLF

Plaintiff,

ORDER RE APPARENT

v. INCONSISTENCY IN JURY’S

SPECIAL VERDICT

EHANG HOLDINGS LIMITED, et al.,

Defendants.

12 There is an apparent inconsistency in the jury’s special verdict. The jury found that Plaintiff proved all elements of false promise against one of the four individual defendants, Hauzhi Hu, and that the two entity defendants, Guangzhou EHang Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd. and EHang Holdings Limited, were vicariously liable for Hu’s false promise. See Verdict at 3-6, ECF 183. The jury found that Plaintiff did not prove all elements of false promise against the remaining three individual defendants, Derrick Yifang Xiong, Shang-Wen Hsiao, and Richard Jian Liu. See id. The false promise claim was the only claim that could give rise to punitive damages. The jury was instructed that if they decided that the…