Any decision by the network on whether to appeal the verdict will await the outcome of the damages phase.

If the plaintiffs succeed in showing class-wide discrimination, the trial will move to a damages phase.

But several of them said the psychoanalyst could have difficulty in a new damages phase of the case, if that was what the judge ordered.

The jury began hearing testimony in the damages phase of the trial yesterday.

The damages phase of the trial began on May 2, 2011.

This case ended with a settlement before the damages phase of the trial at hand.

Even with the potential for immediate financial disaster apparently averted, the stakes were still high as the punitive damages phase of the trial unfolded.

This week, associates of Mr. Spence gave an opening statement in the damages phase of a case he won last year.

Bouchat ultimately was not awarded monetary compensation in the damages phase of the case.

He has to take the witness stand again, this time in the damages phase of his trial.