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Nature of Suit Code: 365
Nature of Suit: Personal Injury - Product Liability
Cause of Action: 28:1332 Diversity-Product Liability

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United States District Court

Northern District of California

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SUNSHINE AYERS,

Plaintiff,

v.

WAL-MART STORES, INC., et al.,

Defendants.

Case No. 14-cv-04707-JCS 

ORDER TO RESUBMIT JOINT 

PROPOSED JURY INSTRUCTIONS

The parties have filed Joint Proposed Jury Instructions that do not comply with the Court’s 

pretrial order. See Docket No. 59, ¶ V(A)(2) & (3). First, rather than filing the jury instructions 

themselves, the parties have simply filed a list of form instructions. Second, the instructions are to 

be arranged in “a logical sequence,” see id., in other words, in a sequence that will be logical to 

the jury when the instructions are read to them. The list provided by the parties is not organized in 

a way that can be easily understood by a jury. Third, many of the form instructions listed by the 

parties require that specific information be inserted or that the instruction be otherwise tailored to 

the relevant facts or law. For example, Ninth Circuit Model Jury Instruction No. 1.2 requires 

descriptions of the parties’ claims and defenses. The parties have not provided any of the language 

that should be used in such instructions. Finally, the Court’s pretrial order includes specific 

guidelines relating to disputed instructions. Where, as here, each side offers an instruction to 

which the other side objects but does not offer its own competing version of that instruction, the 

party objecting to the instruction is instructed to “explain why” on a separate page inserted in lieu 

of an alternate version. Neither side has done so. 

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The parties are instructed to meet and confer and jointly create a set of jury instructions 

that complies with the Court’s order, to be filed no later than December 8, 2015.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: December 1, 2015

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JOSEPH C. SPERO

Chief Magistrate Judge

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