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.
Although the two terms can. be treated distinctively (and have been by some courts and. writers), in general legal usage they merge at their margins. Necessarily and historically a finding of gross negligence or willful. misconduct has been a fault-based moral judgment.