Court Opinion

ID: 9844991
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-24 03:13:15.545824+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:15:49.305452
License: Public Domain

MESCHKE, Justice,
concurring.
Although these instructions are unusually (and undesirably) one-sided and argumentative, I reluctantly concur in today’s result and much of the reasoning. I submit that the complexity, prolixity, and confusion implicit in these jury instructions continue to illustrate the need to combine and simplify strict liability and negligence doctrine for submission to a jury, at least in the failure-to-warn context. See my concurrence and dissent in Oanes v. Westgo, Inc., 476 N.W.2d 248 (N.D.1991) and Justice Levine’s dissent in Butz v. Werner, 438 N.W.2d 509 (N.D.1989).