Motion,Ex Parte: MARC NELSON VS FORD MOTOR COMPANY

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          Scott M. Erskine (SBN 257466)
          erskine@erskinelawgroup.com
                                                                                        Los Angeles Superior Court
          Jonathan M. Shugart (SBN 278221)
          jshugart@erskinelawgroup.com
          ERSKINE LAW GROUP
          342 South Main Street                                                                          JUL 11 2016
          Rochester, MI 48307                 .
          Telephone:     (248)601-4499                                                  Sher R,             at, EKUGUE         estGlerk
          Facsimile:     (248)601-4997                                                      By.                                  Deputy
          Attorney for Defendant
          FORD MOTOR COMPANY

                                   SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA
                                              FOR THE COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES
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                                                                      CASE NO.: BC585093
     12   MARC NELSON,
                                                                      Assigned to: Hon. Gregory Keosian
     13                            Plaintiff(s),                      Department: 61
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                                                                      MOTION IN LIMINE NO. 8                                              <
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     15   FORD MOTOR        COMPANY;          a Delaware              DEFENDANT'S MOTION IN LIMINE NO. 8
          corporation and DOES | through 10,                          TO EXCLUDE GOLDEN RULE ARGUMENT;
     16   inclusive                                                       [PROPOSED] ORDER

     17                            Defendants.
                                                                      File Date: June 15, 2015
     18                                                               Trial Date: August 2, 2016

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                  TO PLAINTIFF AND TO HIS ATTORNEY OF RECORD:
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     23           Ford Motor Company ("Ford") hereby moves the Court in limine for an Order excluding

     24   a Golden Rule argument.
     25           It is well settled that appeals to the sympathies of the jurors by asking that they try to
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          imagine themselves in the position of the Plaintiff or "in Plaintiff's shoes" are clearly improper.
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          See   Cassim   v. Allstate   Ins.   Co.,    33   Cal.4th   780,   796   (2004).         This   so-called       "golden rule"
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                                                   DEFENDANT'S MOTON IN LIMINE NO. 8