Search Legal Terms and Definitions. overrule. v. 1) to reject an attorney's objection to a question to a witness or admission of evidence. By overruling the objection, the trial judge allows the question or evidence in court. If the judge agrees with the objection, he/she sustains the objection and does not allow the question or evidence.
In general, gross misconduct in the workplace is characterized as an objectionable action that is willful and cannot be described as a mistake or an act of negligence.
âWillful blindness is knowledge, in copyright law as it is in the law generally, a deliberate effort to avoid guilty knowledge is all the law requires to establish a guilty state of mind.â Willfulness need not be proven directly but may be inferred from the defendantâs conduct.