context: The instructions here thus failed to provide the jury with a complete understanding of the applicable law, and indeed, they imposed independent burdens on the plaintiff that have been rejected by the Illinois courts. We therefore cannot say with any degree of certainty that the instructional errors were harmless.
citation_a.signal: cf.
citation_a.identifier: 30 F.3d 898, 901
citation_a.parenthetical: remanding for new trial where jury verdict for the plaintiff in a vehicle defect case could have been based on an improper legal theory
citation_a.sentence: See Simmons, Inc., 762 F.2d at 599 n. 3 (in a ease where the jury could have based its decision on a valid or an invalid theory, we cannot speculate as to which the jury chose); cf. Bammerlin v. Navistar Int’l Transp. Corp., 30 F.3d 898, 901 (7th Cir.1994) (remanding for new trial where jury verdict for the plaintiff in a vehicle defect case could have been based on an improper legal theory).
citation_b.signal: see
citation_b.parenthetical: in a ease where the jury could have based its decision on a valid or an invalid theory, we cannot speculate as to which the jury chose
citation_b.sentence: See Simmons, Inc., 762 F.2d at 599 n. 3 (in a ease where the jury could have based its decision on a valid or an invalid theory, we cannot speculate as to which the jury chose); cf. Bammerlin v. Navistar Int’l Transp. Corp., 30 F.3d 898, 901 (7th Cir.1994) (remanding for new trial where jury verdict for the plaintiff in a vehicle defect case could have been based on an improper legal theory).