Putnam Resources v. Ronald M. Pateman, Ronald M. Pateman v. Frenkel & Company, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• stating that silence after jury instructions \typically constitutes a waiver of any objections\ for purposes of appeal
• holding, under substantially identical civil counterpart, that \[s]ilence after instructions . . . typically constitutes a waiver of any objections\
• explaining that failure to object to jury instructions typically precludes future challenges to those instructions and “a party cannot be permitted to complain about invited errors”
• explaining that district courts have “wide discretion in constructing and utilizing verdict forms”
• noting that Rhode Island applied different rules to contract- and tort-related issues
• employing Woodward as an example of a case in which the Rhode Island Supreme court chose to apply depecage

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).