Gemstar Ltd. v. Ernst & Young

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that because corporations had capacity to sue and verdicts were duplicative for both corporations and individual shareholders, court would decline to determine shareholder capacity to sue
• holding that court’s ruling on admissibility of evidence reviewed for clear abuse of discretion
• noting that reversal is justified only if the instruction was both erroneous and prejudicial
• stating evidentiary rulings will not be disturbed on appeal unless clear abuse of discretion appears and prejudice results
• stating trial court has broad discretion when determining whether a witness is competent to testify as an expert
• adopting Restatement (Second) of Conflict of Laws (1971) (law of state of incorporation generally governs internal affairs of corporation)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).