Patterson v. United Parcel Service, Inc.

D.P. Marshall Jr., Judge.

Brent Patterson appeals a jury verdict in favor of United Parcel Service in this personal-injury case. We confront questions about judicial notice of federal law and jury instmctions.

Patterson was an employee of Fleming Network Services, a company that UPS hired to install communications cables at a UPS warehouse in Dermott. The Fleming employees had to use ladders to install the cables. There was a fixed ladder at the warehouse with a platform at the top. Patterson did not have to use UPS’s fixed ladder; Fleming trucks come equipped with ladders. But Patterson used…