Lederman v. Frontier Fire Protection, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that “burdens of proof are almost always crucial to the outcome of the trial” (quotations omitted)
• explaining that jury instructions need not be “flawless”
• “A party who objects to an instruction ... must do so on the record, stating distinctly the matter objected to and the grounds for the objection.”
• “[J]ust as some courts have mistakenly viewed ‘clear and affirmative evidence’ as a heightened evidentiary standard, the same is true with the phrase ‘plainly and unmistakably.’”
• “So long as the charge as a whole adequately states the law, the refusal to give a particular requested instruction is not grounds for reversal.” (brackets and internal quotation marks omitted)
• adequacy of the court’s jury instructions in their entirety is reviewed de novo

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).