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Appellate Practice

Feb. 8, 2001

Empty Victories

The untimely filing of a new-trial motion deprives a party of the extension-to-appeal period in the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure.

        By Paul D. Fogel and Dan Howard
        
        While most litigators are well-versed in the rules relating to trials, relatively few have ventured into the arcane world of post-trial practice, much less explored the sometimes nonintuitive interplay between the rules governing post-trial motions and the right to appeal.
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