United States Fifth Circuit

In an employment discrimination action, a jury verdict in plaintiff's favor is vacated where the district court erroneously instructed the jury on the law and that erroneous instruction could have affected the outcome of the trial.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/21/2004
• Published 12/21/2004

Judges

• EMILIO M. GARZA, Circuit Judge:, Before SMITH and GARZA, Circuit Judges, and VANCE, District Judge.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• John Wallace Griffin, Jr., Houston, Marek & Griffin, Bobby Dewayne Brown, Law Office of Bobby D. Brown, Victoria, TX, for Plaintiff-Appellee., Adrian L. Young, Asst. Atty. Gen., Austin, TX, for Defendant-Appellant.