Hetzel v. Bethlehem Steel Corp.

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• holding that the district court did not abuse its discretion by accepting a summary judgment motion filed one day late
• holding that the district court did not abuse its discretion by accepting a summary judgment motion filed one day late
• holding plaintiff’s claim under Texas’s Deceptive Trade Practices Act preempted by the LHWCA’s exclusivity provision
• finding no abuse of discretion where the district court’s denial of the movant’s motion to extend the deadline to respond to the summary judgment motion “would have required the cause to be removed from the district court’s April calendar.”
• “Under Fed. R. Civ. P. 6(b), the district court is granted broad discretion to expand filing deadlines.”
• reversal of the granting of an unopposed summary judgment was not warranted because trial court addressed the merits of the motion as an alternative holding

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