Ploch v. Hamai

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• each submission in a disjunctive instruction, i.e., an instruction containing alternative submissions of acts giving rise to liability, must be supported by substantial evidence
• the plaintiff was prejudiced by the trial court’s refusal to submit the proffered instruction “by not allowing the jury to consider [the defendant’s] potential liability on an issue sufficiently presented at trial”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).