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: the (new) legal writerHow to draft more understandable jury instructions
Full post as published by the (new) legal writer on December 24, 2009 (boomark / email).
Microsoft Word Tips for Jury Instructions
I just saw a great tip from Carol’s Corner Office Blog about printing jury instructions. One of the problems with preparing jury instructions is that you need a copy for you, opposing counsel, and the judge with citations on them...
Reminder: New Illinois Jury Instructions Can Be Found Online
The Illinois Courts website contains "recent instructions, not yet contained in the Illinois Pattern Jury Instructions bound volumes, drafted by the Supreme Court Committee on Jury Instructions in Civil Cases...
The book of RICO: jury instructions of biblical proportations
The 89 pages of jury instructions in the RICO Crips trial had lawyers comparing it to parts of the Bible in today’s closing arguments. “We have jury instructions longer than the Psalms, except there is no poetry in them,” defense lawyer Paul McCausland said of the jury instructions given Friday by U...
Law: Opportunity to comment on draft instructions for IRS 990
The Internal Revenue Service is seeking public comments on the draft instructions to the 2008 Form 990, the annual return most tax-exempt organizations must use to report information about their operations...
Retributive Damages: Possible Jury Instructions
In earlier posts gathered here, I laid out the structure, rationale, and constitutional implications for a new way to think of punitive damages as an intermediate sanction designed to facilitate the public normative interest in retributive justice...
New Jury Instruction Research Guide
There is a new research guide available for anyone doing work on jury instructions. This guide "helps you find the standard and pattern jury instructions issued by state and federal judiciaries, as well as other sources when those standard instructions do not cover your situation...
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