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4 Mar 2010, 12:16 pm by South Florida Lawyers
Following extensive review and revision, the Committee submitted its report in case number SC09-284, proposing the reorganization of the standard civil jury instructions and amendments limited to plain English modifications to make the instructions easier to understand. [read post]
27 Mar 2018, 5:00 am by Daniel E. Cummins
In particular, as reported in numerous recent articles in the Pennsylvania Law Weekly and The Legal Intelligencer, the trial courts are faced with conflicting positions from the plaintiff’s bar and the defense bar on the proper language for jury instructions in post-Tincher products cases.After the Tincher decision was handed down by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court in 2014, the civil instructions subcommittee of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court committee for… [read post]
3 May 2007, 2:13 am
It might be noted that Judge Farmer is a member of the standard jury instructions committee for civil cases. [read post]
7 Oct 2014, 6:55 am by J. Michael Goodson Law Library
PJI, sometimes also called "model jury instructions" or "standard jury instructions," provide sample language that judges may read to juries before trial deliberations. [read post]
4 Jul 2012, 5:46 pm by INFORRM
I am a long-term member of the Jury Charge committee of my state bar in the United States, a committee that writes the legal instructions to the jury in civil cases, and was thus very pleased to observe the closing arguments and the Judge’s summing up to the jury in the recent trial of Cooper v Evening Standard and Associated Newspapers, a civil  jury trial that arose from a newspaper article that incorrectly… [read post]
25 Jan 2016, 7:39 am by David Markus
  Justice Thomas, for a unanimous Court, said the prosecution does not need to meet the higher standard, even though the jury instructions so stated. [read post]
3 Dec 2021, 8:00 am by Robert Kreisman
“While the threshold for permitting an instruction in a civil case is modest, the standard for reversing a judgment based on failure to permit an instruction is high. [read post]
21 Mar 2016, 1:46 pm by J. Michael Goodson Law Library
Unfortunately, the Pinellas County website and Bloomberg Law don’t include copies of actual filings with their docket information, but researchers can get an idea of the general instruction contents for negligence cases and calculation of damages at the Florida Standard Jury InstructionsCivil on the state court website.Florida Standard Jury Instructions can also be found on Westlaw and Lexis Advance,… [read post]
31 Mar 2024, 9:52 am by Dennis Crouch
These instructions explain the relevant law, legal standards, and how the jury should apply the law to the facts of the case when reaching a verdict. [read post]
10 Sep 2009, 1:27 am
Eades, The Problem of Jury Instructions in Civil Cases, 27 Cumb. [read post]
10 Sep 2009, 1:27 am
Eades, The Problem of Jury Instructions in Civil Cases, 27 Cumb. [read post]
10 Sep 2009, 1:27 am
Eades, The Problem of Jury Instructions in Civil Cases, 27 Cumb. [read post]
10 Nov 2008, 4:46 pm
LIST OF INSTRUCTIONS (Maryland Civil Pattern Jury Instructions-Unless Otherwise Indicated) 1. [read post]
22 Oct 2007, 8:03 am
Nacchio disputes the claim stating that other courts have applied the reasonable basis “even in civil fraud cases involving projections” to counter the risk a jury will impose liability upon the defendant based on “20/20 hindsight. [read post]
13 Dec 2011, 4:00 am
The court suggested in Studt that this civil jury instruction from 2006 relating to professional negligence may be an inaccurate statement of the law. [read post]
17 Jan 2017, 9:10 am by Parr Richey Frandsen Patterson Kruse
Furthermore, the court noted that elsewhere in the instructions, the court told the jury that it must find each element “by a preponderance of the evidence,” which is the proper standard in civil cases. [read post]
31 Jan 2015, 12:48 pm by Jacek Stramski
The Supreme Court additionally approved proposed changes from the Supreme Court Committee on Standard Jury Instructions in Criminal Cases to jury instructions for Kidnapping (9.1) and False Imprisonment (9.2). [read post]
13 Oct 2017, 5:53 am by Daniel E. Cummins
 These suggested instructions were drafted in response to the proposed instructions for products cases issued in the summer of 2016 by the civil instructions subcommittee of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court Committee for Proposed Standard Jury Instructions. [read post]