Hallmark v. Allied Products Corp.

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that the trial court “need not instruct on every refinement suggested by counsel”
• noting the rule reflects “a social policy of encouraging people to take, or at least not discouraging them from taking, steps in furtherance of added safety” (quoting Fed. R. Evid. 407 advisory committee’s notes)
• “[T]he trial judge has broad power to insure that remedial measures evidence is not improperly admitted under the guise of the ‘other purpose’ exception.”
• “[T]he trial judge has broad power to insure that remedial measures evidence is not improperly admitted under the guise of the ‘other purpose’ exception.”
• “[T]he trial judge has broad power to insure that remedial measures evidence is not improperly admitted under the guise of 12 the ‘other purpose’ exception.”
• \It is not error to refuse to give requested instructions where the concepts contained therein are adequately conveyed through given instructions.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).