Missouri Department of Transportation ex rel. on Point Contractors, LLC v. Aura Contracting, LLC

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• holding that while the trial court may enjoy some discretionary leeway in deciding what instructions are authorized by the evidence, it has no discretion to give an instruction that misrepresents the applicable law
• allegations of instructional error based upon the claim that the trial court gave an instruction that was not sufficiently supported by the evidence
• overruled on other grounds by University Medical Center, Inc. v. Shwab, 628 S.W.3d 112 (Ky. 2021)
• “courts apply the conjunction, ‘and,’ as written by the legislature unless that construction would clearly thwart the intent of the legislature or produce an absurd result”
• \[A] trial court’s decision on whether to instruct on a specific claim will be reviewed for abuse of discretion; the substantive content of the jury instructions will be reviewed de novo.\
• \[A] trial court's decision on whether to instruct on a specific claim will be reviewed for abuse of discretion; the substantive content of the jury instructions will be reviewed de nova.\

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