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Seventh Circuit· 4/25/1977

Martinez v. Trainor

Citations

  • 556 F.2d 818
  • 23 Fed. R. Serv. 2d 403

How courts have described this case

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  • holding that a defendant who failed to state “even one ground for granting the motion” failed to meet the standard of “reasonable specification”
  • finding that defendant’s Rule 59(e) motion \failed to state even one ground for granting the motion and thus failed to meet the minimal standard of ’reasonable specification’\
  • court rejected party’s attempt in effect to extend filing deadline by filing a timely, skeletal motion that specified no grounds for the motion and supplementing the motion with specific grounds after the ten-day deadline had passed

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Judges: Campbell, Swygert, Wood

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