Bruce Gilchrist v. Jim Slemons Imports, Inc., and Jim Slemons

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that an ERISA preemption defense “does not generally affect jurisdiction” and refusing to reach it for the first time on appeal
• holding federal preemption arguments that do not impact jurisdiction may be waived
• reviewing the admission of an EEOC letter of violation for an abuse of discretion
• reviewing the admission of an EEOC letter of violation for an abuse of discretion
• an argument that ERISA preempts state law implicates only a choice-of-law question that \is waived unless it is timely raised.\
• “A party who requests an instruction invites any error contained therein and, absent an objection before the instruction is given, waives appellate review of the correctness of the instruction.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).