Friend v. Alton Railroad

How courts have described this case

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• noting that when Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 6(b) was amended to provide district courts with greater “flexibility,” it 27 was “assumed that discretionary extensions would be liberally granted”
• “The amendments of Rules 6(b) and 25(a)(1) provided needed flexibility. It was assumed that discretionary extensions would be liberally granted.”
• “[T]he 90 day period was not intended to act as a bar to otherwise meritorious actions.”
• “Of crucial importance is the fact that appellees suffered no prejudice from the two day delay.”
• “The amendments of Rules 6(b) and 25(a)(1) provided needed flexibility. It was assumed that discretionary extensions would be liberally granted.
• “[T]he history of the 1963 amendment to Rule 25 makes clear that the 90 day period was not intended to act as a bar to otherwise meritorious actions.”

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