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· 1/10/1927

Detroit Trust Co. v. Schantz

Citations

  • 16 F.2d 943
  • 1927 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 930

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • explaining that, because of earlier delays, court did not abuse discretion in denying one‐day extension after lawyer’s computer allegedly broke down
  • affirming trial court’s decision to deny motion for one-day extension in filing evidentiary materials, strike untimely- filed materials, and grant summary judgment on basis of properly filed record
  • “A good judge sets deadlines, and the judge has a right to assume that deadlines will be honored.”
  • “If the court allows litigants to continually ignore deadlines and seek never ending extensions without consequence, 7 soon the court's scheduling orders would become meaningless.”
  • district court did not abuse discretion in rejecting counsel’s “catastrophic computer failure” as justification for one-day extension to file supporting materials in support of response to motion for summary judgment

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Judges: Tuttle

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