Jacqueline Selph v. Council of the City of Los Angeles

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• explaining that “excusable neglect is not meant to cover the usual excuse that the lawyer is too busy, which can be used, perhaps truthfully, in almost every case”
• failure to file timely appeal because counsel was moving offices, which disrupted normal calendaring practices, \does not constitute excusable neglect\
• “The term excusable neglect is not meant 21 to cover the usual excuses that the lawyer is too busy, which can be used, perhaps truthfully, 22 in almost every case.”
• late filed notice of appeal under Fed.R.App.P. 4(a)

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