Mealey's ( August 20, 2020, 10:29 AM EDT) -- NEW YORK — A New York justice on Aug. 10 refused to set aside as excessive a $59.1 million jury award to a man who was severely burned at age 16 while watching his high school science teacher conduct a chemistry experiment that a federal chemistry board had warned was dangerous. On Aug. 17, the New York City Department of Education and Board of Education filed a notice of appeal (Yvonne Yanes, et al. v. New York, et al., No. 161066/2014, N.Y. Sup., New York Co., 2020 N.Y. Misc. LEXIS 4240)....