Donald K. Hall v. Western Production Company

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• holding that it was not an abuse of discretion for the trial court to exclude an agency finding of no discrimination on the ground that the report would “suggest to the jury that it should reach the same conclusion” as the agency
• finding that at-will instruction was properly used in a case involving a Plaintiff’s breach of contract claim
• plaintiff who had obtained damages on a non-fee-eligible claim but only a favorable verdict and $0 in damages on the fee-eligible claim was still the prevailing party
• plaintiff who had obtained damages on a nonfee-eligible claim but only a favorable verdict and $0 in damages on the fee-eligible claim was still the prevailing party
• district court did not abuse discretion when it excluded agency finding of no discrimination on ground that report would “suggest to the jury that it should reach the same conclusion” as agency
• district court did not abuse discretion in excluding state agency report where \all the evidentiary matter before the [state agency] could be presented to the jury\ and, thus, sole purpose of admitting report \would be to suggest to the jury that it should reach the same conclusion\ as agency

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