Parodi v. Washoe Medical Center, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a trial judge has a responsibility to maintain order and decorum in trial proceedings
• holding that a trial judge has a responsibility to maintain order and decorum in trial proceedings
• concluding “that any instruction specifying nonli-ability for certain errors in judgment, or the applicability of ‘honest’ or ‘best’ judgment, may fall under the rubric of ‘error-in-judgment’”
• holding that “error-in-judgment” instruction given “may confuse jurors into focusing on the health care provider s subjective intentions and judgments rather than on the real issue of whether the health care provider s conduct conformed to an objective standard of care”
• noting “error-in-judgment” instructions may improperly focus jury on subjective intentions rather than objective standard of care
• finding error in giving of \error in judgment” instruction phrased in terms of exercise of \best judgment” and identifying \growing number of courts that have rejected error-in-judgment instruction\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).