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141635P.pdf 04/23/2015 Luther Stanley v. Cottrell Inc.
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 14-1635
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri - St. Louis
[PUBLISHED] [Murphy, Author, with Loken and Melloy, Circuit Judges]
Civil case - Torts. Plaintiff's proffered rebuttal testimony was
cumulative and the district court did not abuse its discretion by refusing
to admit it; plaintiff did not preserve his challenge to defendant's
verdict director as he did not make a specific objection when the court
read the instruction at the instruction conference and did not object when
the instruction was read to the jury; since his claim of error was
forfeited, plaintiff must show an obvious error in the instruction and he
has failed to do so; based on the language in 28 U.S.C. Sec. 1920(2) a
party may recover costs of both printed and electronically recorded
transcripts of the same deposition as long as each transcript is necessary
for use in the case; award of various costs affirmed.