Billy G. Bufford and Cheryl Bufford v. Rowan Companies, Inc. And Nelson Vidrine

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a new trial was warranted because defense counsel implied that plaintiff’s selection of legal counsel was indicative of a “copycat” lawsuit
• “Improper comments from the bench or by counsel will not warrant a reversal unless they so permeate the proceedings that they impair substantial rights and cast doubt on the jury’s verdict.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).