Clarksville-Montgomery County School System v. United States Gypsum Company, National Gypsum Company

How courts have described this case

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• \A jury instruction which states the law with substantial accuracy and fairly submits the issues to the jury will not provide grounds for reversal.\
• \A jury instruction which states the law with substantial accuracy and fairly submits the issues to the jury will not provide grounds for reversal.\
• “We first note that Clarksville’s failure to object to a specific charge before and after the jury charge is given constitutes waiver of the objection.” (citation omitted)
• entry of default judgment represented appropriate sanction for failure to appear at pretrial conference
• “Even where a portion of the charge is erroneous, if the point is explained and corrected . . . so that the jury will not be misled, the jury’s verdict should be affirmed.”
• “The authority to grant a new trial . . . is confided almost entirely to the exercise of discretion on the part of the trial court.” (quoting in parenthetical Allied Chem. Corp. v. Daiflon, Inc., 449 U.S. 33, 36 (1980) (per curiam))

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).