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112505P.pdf 07/10/2012 Kayla Nemmers v. Ford Motor Company
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 11-2505
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa - Davenport
[PUBLISHED] [Shepherd, Author, with Gruender and Benton, Circuit Judge]
Civil case - Products liability. Challenges to evidentiary rulings
rejected; plaintiff failed to show that each challenged prospective juror
was unable to lay aside his or her impressions or opinions and return a
verdict based upon the evidence produced at trial, and the district court
did not abuse its discretion by failing to dismiss the challenged jurors for
cause; there was evidentiary support for defense counsel's closing
argument that the other passengers in the vehicle removed plaintiff from
the vehicle after the accident, and the district court did not err in
overruling her objection to the comment and denying her request for a
curative instruction.