223570P.pdf   02/28/2024  Reach Companies, LLC  v.  Newsert, LLC
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  22-3570
   U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota   
   [PUBLISHED] [Shepherd, Author, with Benton and Kelly, Circuit Judges] 
   Civil case - Contracts. Challenged instruction telling the jury to 
   disregard the parties' pre-contract interactions was not erroneous because 
   the district court did not err in determining the purchase orders at issue 
   were not ambiguous as to their terms; the evidence was sufficient to 
   support the jury's award of lost profits to defendant; the district court 
   did not err in admitting evidence of six criminal convictions incurred by 
   one of plaintiff's officers, as they were numerous, spanned a significant 
   period of time, and all involved fraud and deceit; the information bore 
   directly on the witness's credibility in this dispute which centered 
   largely on whether the parties had agreed orally to terms that 
   supplemented or changed the written purchase orders.