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.
REFLECTIONS ON WILLFUL, WANTON, RECKLESS, AND GROSS. NEGLIGENCE. INTRODUCTION. The terms willful, wanton, reckless, and gross negligence. are all frequently used in the law to describe certain types of conduct, but it is difficult to articulate clearly what those types of conduct are. Sometimes these words are given the same meaning and are grouped.