Federal Enterprises, Inc., a Missouri Corporation, and Douglas S. Evans, Trustee in Bankruptcy v. Greyhound Leasing & Financial Corp.

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• holding that the district court’s “use and definition of ‘ordinary care’ [were] inaccurate”
• explaining that a “party is entitled to an instruction reflecting that party’s theory of the case” only if “there is evidence to support it”
• “[W]e accord a district judge broad discretion in choosing the form and language of the jury instructions.”
• failure to define key legal terms resulted in deficient instructions
• failure to define key legal terms resulted in deficient instructions

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).