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· 10/29/1979

McManues v. Overberg

Citations

  • 444 U.S. 935
  • 100 S. Ct. 283
  • 62 L. Ed. 2d 194
  • 1979 U.S. LEXIS 3577

How courts have described this case

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  • finding that counsel’s failure to study the federal service of process rules will not suffice to establish good cause
  • where counsel discovered three days before the 120-day period expired that he had served the wrong defendant, but did not move for an extension of time to serve pursuant to Rule 6(b), he could not show “good cause” for his late service of the correct defendant

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