Legal Opinion
DeCaro v. Hasbro, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided September 2, 2009No. 09-1054PublishedCited by 50 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SELYA, Circuit Judge.
This appeal involves two claims of instructional error and a belated claim of error concerning the procedure to be followed by a trial court under the 2003 amendments to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 51. Concluding, as we do, that no substantive or procedural error tainted the challenged jury instructions, we affirm.
I. BACKGROUND
We rehearse here only those facts necessary to place this appeal in context.
Plaintiff-appellant Emilio DeCaro worked for defendant-appellee Hasbro, Inc., at its plant in Longmeadow, Massachusetts, for over two decades, most recently as a “first…
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