Bonner
Bonner v. Las Vegas Tropicana
Opinion
Lead Opinion
MEMORANDUM **
Appellant Bonita Ruiz Bonner appeals the judgment of the district court in a negligence action against the Las Vegas Tropicana Hotel and Casino (“Tropicana”), after a jury returned a verdict in favor of Tropicana. We have jurisdiction pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1291 . We affirm in part and reverse in part.
Evidentiary rulings by the district court are reviewed for an abuse of discretion. B.K.B. v. Maui Police Dep’t, 276 F.3d 1091, 1103 (9th Cir.2002). In the present case, the district court did not abuse its discretion in making its evidentiary rulings. Specifically, the photographs that were excluded by the district court were not of the specific area where Appellant allegedly sustained her injuries. Hence, the district court did not abuse its discretion in excluding them. Furthermore, after reviewing the record, there are no grounds for concluding that the district court abused its discretion in excluding Appellant’s W-2 forms or Appellant’s rebuttal testimony.
Whether a jury instruction misstates the law is reviewed de novo. Beachy v. Boise Cascade Corp., 191 F.3d 1010, 1012 (9th Cir.1999). In this case, we find that the district court did not incorrectly instruct…