Hoage v. Liberty Mut. Ins.

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• holding that attorney’s reliance on district court rules of procedure in filing an appeal constitutes inexcusable neglect
• holding that attorney’s reliance on district court rules of procedure in filing an appeal constitutes inexcusable neglect
• concluding that district court abuses its discretion in extending time to file criminal appeal when “absence of excuse is . . . total”
• noting that “[o]rdinarily, when a district judge fails to explain a nonobvious exercise of his discretion, the proper remedy is to remand the case for him to do so”
• finding inexcusable neglect where ex- perienced federal litigator miscalculated the time to file a notice of appeal because he relied on rules governing procedure in the district court, not in the court of appeals

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