Evelyn Cotto and Edwin Torres, Etc. v. United States

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• finding that motion filed sixteen months after judgment was not filed within a reasonable time
• explaining that “[ejxhaustion is a jurisdictional prerequisite to the prosecution of their FTCA claims”
• “[I]n our adversary system of justice, each litigant remains under an abiding duty to take the legal steps necessary to protect his or her own interests.”
• similar; emphasizing that there was no indication of any impediment to movants’ “ability to protect their interests in a timely manner”
• “Exhaustion of plaintiffs' administrative remedies is a jurisdictional prerequisite to the prosecution of ... FTCA claims.”
• “In our adversary system of justice, each litigant remains under an abiding duty to take the legal steps necessary to protect his or her own interests.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).