Appellate Practice
Mar. 15, 2011
What a Difference a Day Makes
It can take just one day to lose your right to appeal. By Margaret M. Grignon and Brandon W. Corbridge of Reed Smith.
While in most cases the law affords relief from a missed deadline for excusable neglect, or allows the court to correct an inadvertent error by a nunc pro tunc order, such is not the case where jurisdictional deadlines are concerned. Thus, for example, while the Courts of Appeal are generally empowered to relieve a default resulting from a party's excusable failure to comply with appellate rules, the appellate c...
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