Polster v. Griff's of America, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• “[T]he trial court ... should not assume the role of advocate.... These are the basic functions of trial counsel in our adversary system of justice and underlie the rationale of the contemporaneous objection rule.”
• no duty to give a limiting instruction when not requested

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).