Nissho-Iwai Co., Ltd., Cross-Appellant v. Occidental Crude Sales, Inc., Cross-Appellee. Robert B. Weintraub, Intervenor-Appellant

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• holding that parties waive objections to improper statements in closing arguments when they do not object contemporaneously
• reversing grant of new trial where complaining party had failed to object
• barring plaintiff who failed to object during closing 3 [157] at 67 (“[I]f you sit around for three years and try to come up with a story about how you can come to the jury and make some money with it . . . .”
• lawyer’s improper statements1 in closing did not require new trial, in part because trial court instructed jury that nothing said by lawyers was evidence and that jury should not be swayed by emotions or prejudice
• Affiliated “did not consider passage of the 1982 amendment to section 1961”
• new trial may be ordered if improper closing argument irreparably prejudices a jury verdict

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