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073108P.pdf 06/24/2008 Betty Black v. Ryan K. Shultz
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 07-3108
District of Nebraska - Lincoln
[PUBLISHED] [Riley, Author, with John R. Gibson and Melloy,
Circuit Judges]
Civil case - Malpractice. Plaintiff's violation of the court's order in
limine was not prejudicial and did not deny defendant a fair trial as there
was but a single, inadvertent mention of the barred information and the
district court immediately gave a curative instruction; district court did
not err in instructing the jury to consider defendant's negligent
misrepresentations separately from the merits of plaintiff's sexual
harassment action as the malpractice claim did not arise solely from
defendant's failure to file or prosecute plaintiff's underlying sexual
harassment case against her former employer; there were several other
instances of defendant's failure to give plaintiff competent legal advice,
and plaintiff did not need a meritorious underlying case in order to have a
claim for these breaches.