Johnny Richardson v. National Railroad Passenger Corporation

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• potentially costly consequences of rejecting an offer of judgment make a party carefully consider the offer as compared to the claim
• if offer could be revoked, “the pressure on the plaintiff would be greater than [Rule 68] contemplates, because the Rule so construed would allow a defendant to engage in tactical pressuring maneuvers.”
• “[T]he few federal courts that have considered the revocability of offers under Rule 68 ... have treated Rule 68 offers as at least generally irrevocable during the [14]-day period.”

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