Here Come the Judge

Having easily gotten out of jury duty the other day by claiming feebly that I was needed to ensure the uninterrupted daily publication of Reason Online (now there's a really essential public service), I'm wondering if there is any circumstance under which a productive member of society even could end up serving on a jury, and thus more than normally sympathetic to Jacob's fine analysis of how judicial override is increasingly putting the breaks on unreasonable jury-ordered settlements.