US · rules
E.D. Wash. LCivR 51
Instructions to the Jury; Objections; Preserving a Claim of Error
(a) Requests.
(1) In General. Each party shall file and serve proposed jury instructions no later than 7
days before trial. Additional or modified instructions which could not reasonably be
anticipated may be served and filed during the course of the trial.
(2) Format. Each proposed instruction shall be separately paginated, separately
numbered, contain supporting citations and in addition to service and filing, a
Microsoft “Word” file shall be transmitted to the Court’s orders e-mail address.
(b) Instructions.
The Court will read instructions to the jury after the close of evidence and prior to closing
argument. The jury will be given a written set of the Court’s instructions for their deliberations.
(c) through (d) [Reserved]
Provenance
- Source
- www.waed.uscourts.gov
- Retrieved
- 2026-09-18
- Edition
- fed-district-2026-09-19
- Content hash
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