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E.D. Va. Local Civil Rule 51
Proposed Jury Instructions and Voir Dire
Except as provided otherwise in a pretrial or scheduling order, in all cases tried to a jury the parties shall
file proposed instructions and voir dire questions at least seven (7) days before the scheduled trial date.
Each instruction shall be set forth on a separate page and shall be numbered and identified appropriately
by the party submitting it. The parties shall file two versions of the proposed jury instructions with one set
containing at its foot a citation of the authority in support of the instruction and the second set without the
citation of authority. Each set of instructions shall be filed as a group together with a cover sheet in
pleading form. Instructions filed with the Court must be proffered to the Court during the instruction
conference and ruled upon by the judge to become a part of the official record for appeal.
Provenance
- Source
- www.vaed.uscourts.gov
- Retrieved
- 2026-09-18
- Edition
- fed-district-2026-09-18
- Content hash
9d5b2464f739a1db96c2ed2295616c4a255163d243c8e8b29ae338e3f348d539
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