United States First Circuit

Where defendants failed to preserve the issue of a potentially misleading jury instruction, as required by Fed. R. Civ. P. 51, they do not meet the plain error criteria, and a corrected jury instruction would not have changed the outcome of this professional malpractice action. (Revised opinion)

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/01/2002
• Published 11/14/2002

Judges

• LYNCH, Circuit Judge., Before BOUDIN, Chief Judge, TORRUELLA and LYNCH, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• James M. Bowie with whom Robert C. Hatch and Thompson & Bowie, LLP were on brief, for appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Lee H. Bals with whom Marcus, Clegg & Mistretta, P.A. was on brief, for appellee.