United States Ninth Circuit

Under Fed. R. Civ. P. 51, objection to proposed jury instruction based on an incomplete statement of substantive law is insufficient to preserve objection for appeal that the instruction violated substantive state law.

Appellate Information

• Argued 10/04/2000
• Decided 02/22/2001
• Published 02/22/2001

Judges

• Before:  REINHARDT, BRUNETTI and RYMER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Bruce E. Meyerson, Sandra K. Sanders, and Anthony J. Blackwell, Steptoe & Johnson, LLP, Phoenix, Arizona, for the plaintiffs-appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Ronald P. Williams and Lynn D. Preheim, Morrison & Hecker, LLP, Wichita, Kansas, for the defendant-appellee.