Williams v. Portland General Electric Co.

How courts have described this case

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• \Everything which is reasonably capable of confusing or misleading the jury should be avoided.\
• \Everything which is reasonably capable of confusing or misleading the jury should be avoided.\
• with respect to jury instructions, \[e]verything which is reasonably capable of confusing or misleading the jury should be avoided\
• “[T]he very purpose for which instructions are given to juries [is to] enlighten them and to give to them in clear, understandable, unambiguous language the legal principles which will guide them in their deliberations.”
• “The objective of the mold, framework and language of instructions should be to enlighten and to acquaint the jury with the applicable law. Everything which is reasonably capable of confusing or misleading the jury should be avoided.”
• “[T]he very purpose for which instructions are given to juries [is to] enlighten them and to give to them in clear, understandable, unambiguous language the legal principles which will guide them in their deliberations.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).