How do you set or remove generated label styles from the jQuery Validation plugin?

Question

This is probably something simple I'm just missing from the documentation and examples, but I'm trying to remove a style from the generated label that appears when a field is invalid.

This is what I'm getting for a generated label:

<label style="display: inline;" class="error" generated="true" for="FirstName">

What I want is:

<label class="error" generated="true" for="FirstName">

The frustrating part about this for me so far is when I review the examples, I'm not seeing anything that makes me think that the display: inline style is the default behavior.

I'm not doing anything fancy with my implementation. I've added a few validation methods, and have this for the errorPlacement:

   errorPlacement: function(error, element) {
                error.insertAfter(element.siblings("label"));
     }

EDIT:

I've discovered that this is happening only on one of my views.

I also found out that if I hard code the error labels:

<label for="FirstName" class="error" generated="false" style="display:block;"></label>

The system re-writes the style to be display:inline.

Is there something related to asp.net MVC that would be re-writing these styles like this on one of the views? Or would there be some condition that would force the jQuery validation plugin to do this?