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Try CasePortal for FreeJ. Boasberg denies the union's former national secretary-treasurer's motions for a new trial and attorney fees in his suit against the union alleging that he was improperly disciplined for sending a campaign email to members in his run for the union's presidency. The jury's verdict, which found the union liable for the secretary-treasurer's first removal from office but not his second and awarded him no damages, does not represent an impermissible compromise since there is no inherent conflict between the liability finding and the decision not to award damages. The court also did not err in issuing an instruction requiring that he prove by a preponderance of the evidence that the union removed him from his position because of protected speech, and the court's decision not to issue a nominal-damages instruction did not preclude a finding of nominal damages. That issue was also not preserved. Evidence of reputational harm was not improperly excluded, or indeed excluded at all. Finally, attorney fees are not appropriate because, whether or not he could be counted as "successful" in this suit, members of the union were not benefited by that victory and the secretary-treasurer has repeatedly engaged in vexatious litigation behavior.