192612P.pdf   07/15/2020  David Russell  v.  Edward Anderson
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  19-2612
   U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska - Lincoln   
   [PUBLISHED] [Benton, Author, with Colloton, Circuit Judge, and Williams, 
   District Judge] 
   Civil case - Torts. District court's comments during witness presentations 
   did not rise to the level of plain error; plaintiff's $7,000 verdict was 
   not against the weight of the evidence as the amount awarded bore a 
   reasonable relation to the damages proved; the district court erred in 
   dismissing plaintiff's loss-of-earnings capacity claim, but the error was 
   harmless in light of the jury's verdict on the remaining claims because no 
   reasonable jury could have found permanent impairment or or dimmunition of 
   plaintiff's earning capacity; the district court did not abuse its 
   discretion by excluding cross-examination of the sheriff as to the reasons 
   for not issuing defendant a ticket, as the questioning would have been 
   misleading and could have led to jury confusion; the evidence was, in any 
   event, cumulative as to other evidence regarding possible bias the sheriff 
   may have had in favor of defendant at the time of the accident.