Patterson v. GEICO General Insurance Company

How courts have described this case

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

• relying on definition of “ex parte communication” in Black’s Law Dictionary when concluding that judge’s statement to a party’s attorney off the record but in the opposing party’s presence was not an ex parte communication
• \We review the denial of a motion to amend a pleading for abuse of discretion.\
• \We ... review the superior court's application of the evidence rules ... for abuse of discretion.\
• “We . . . review the superior court’s application of the evidence rules . . . for abuse of discretion.”
• “We review previously unraised issues only for plain error, which ‘exists where an obvious mistake has been made which creates a high likelihood that injustice has resulted.’ ” (quoting Swaney v. Granger, 297 P.3d 132, 136 (Alaska 2013))

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).