“A court finding that the evidence was sufficient for the jury’s verdict to survive a Rule 50 motion for judgment as a matter of law will often find the same evidence was sufficient for the verdict to survive a Rule 59 motion for new trial,” the court said. “Nevertheless, as the First Circuit has explained, the standards for the two motions are different and, ‘[i]n some cases, the evidence might preclude judgment as a matter of law and yet lean so heavily in the other direction so as to justify a district judge in ordering a new trial.'”