Gerald Schobert and Ronald E. Werner v. Illinois Department of Transportation

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• holding that the “objection must be specific enough that the nature of the error is brought into focus” and that “pragmatically speaking the district court must be made aware of the error prior to instructing the jury”
• holding that the “objection must be specific enough that the nature of the error is brought into focus” and that “pragmatically speaking the district court must be made aware of the error prior to instructing the jury”
• explaining that the objection \must be specific enough that the nature of the error is brought into focus\
• noting that to preserve an objection to a jury instruction under Rule 51, the objection must be timely and must “distinctly state the matter objected to and the ground of the objection”
• noting that to preserve an objection to a jury instruction under Rule 51, the objection must be timely and must “distinctly state the matter objected to and the ground of the objection”
• proposing an alternative instruction is not enough to overcome waiver when objection not clearly stated

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).