Gross v. FBL Financial Services, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that the improper use of a “mixed-motive” instruction in a “but-for” case “shifted the burden of persuasion on a central issue in the case,” and therefore “the error cannot be harmless”
• “if claims and counterclaims are inextricably intertwined, then it could be unfair to order a new trial on only a portion of the case.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).