Dews v. Kern Radiology Med. Grp., Inc.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding 2 that even in a tax case, no good faith instruction was required because the 3 “standard jury instruction on the willfulness element of tax evasion generally 4 encompasses a good faith defense”
• holding 2 that even in a tax case, no good faith instruction was required because the 3 “standard jury instruction on the willfulness element of tax evasion generally 4 encompasses a good faith defense”
• “[W]e will disturb an evidentiary ruling only where the decision . . . was manifestly erroneous” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• “even if a ruling was manifestly erroneous, we will still affirm if the error was harmless” — that is, “if it is not likely that it contributed to the verdict” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• “We review a district court’s evidentiary rulings under a deferential abuse of discretion standard, and we will disturb an evidentiary ruling only where the decision to admit or exclude evidence was manifestly erroneous.” (internal quotation marks omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).