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Two issue rule; collision; general verdict in multi-claim case; assured clear distance ahead; statute; negligence; proximate cause. A party may not attack jury instructions on sudden emergency, unavoidable accident and comparative negligence when they cannot demonstrate they were prejudiced by the instructions.
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Civil Procedure
Discovery
... by the remaining defendants at the pre-verdict stage because the amounts did not, in any way, con...Pursuant to Maryland Rule 2-402(a), a party may obtain discovery regarding a..., employment, financial situation, and general population statistics, i.e., life expectancy and w...
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Jury instruction, horseplay, knowledge and consent of employer. The trial court did not err by instructing the jury to return a verdict in favor of plaintiff-appellee, the injured worker, for an exception to the general rule prohibiting one from receiving workers' compensation benefits applies where the employee "is injured by horseplay commonly carried on by the employees with the knowledge and consent or acquiescence of the employer," and the instruction fairly and correctly stated the law applicable to the evidence presented at trial.
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..., is permitted and is governed by Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 32.1 and this court's Local... CORPORATION; SOCIETE GENERALE, as manager for. Certain Funding Limited; and T...2004). "Provided the proper pre-verdict motion has been made and renewed, Rule 50(a) pe...
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...After the jury returned a verdict for Atlas, but before entry of judgment, petitione...This Court has long adhered to the rule that subject-matter jurisdiction in diversity case...3d 168, 174 (2002). It acknowledged the general rule that, for purposes of determining the existen...
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...), the Federal Circuit affirmed the jury verdict of induced and willful infringement, and the distr...The Court further pointed out that Rule 50 at least required Pentalpha to raise its argume... ruled that the jury verdict satisfied the general verdict rule and was proper on both inducement and...
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... also presented the jury witha set of verdict forms, which allowed the jury either to co...S. 497, 503 (1978). To implement this rule, ourcases have articulated two principles. First,...See generally People v.Richardson, 184 P. 3d 755, 764, n. 7 (Col...
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...Janet Axelrod, General Counsel, National Education Association of New Yor... no error sufficient for us to vacate the verdict. BACKGROUND. A. Facts. Eve Bruneau began the 1993-...The district court ruled that Title IX subsumed Bruneau's § 1983 claim, fi...
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... also presented the jury witha set of verdict forms, which allowed the jury either to co...S. 497, 503 (1978). To implement this rule, ourcases have articulated two principles. First,...See generally People v.Richardson, 184 P. 3d 755, 764, n. 7 (Col...
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...Stromberg requires that a general guilty verdict be set aside if the jury was instru...Nor is a second rule derived from Stromberg - requiring that a general ...