Welcome back to Opening Argument, a reported column where I dig into interesting legal controversies and questions that have divided circuit courts. Today: a look at court filing deadlines and a proposed change.
If you want to get a bunch of lawyers to all agree on something, try changing a court’s filing deadline from midnight to 5 p.m.
That’s what the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit is proposing for electronic and in-person filings, and practicing attorneys overwhelmingly hate the idea.
“It’s unnecessary,” said Virginia Hinrichs McMichael, founder of Appellate Law Group LLC. “Having practiced for almost 40 ...
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