Miller v. Ladd

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• explaining that abuse of discretion is found “only upon a showing that the court withheld it altogether, or that it exercised it for clearly untenable reasons or to an extent clearly untenable”
• rule should not be invoked to cover routine oversights; standard requires some reasonable basis for failure to comply in the time allowed
• in a civil case, we stated that “[i]n order for the plaintiffs to secure a reversal they must show that there has been an abuse of discretion and that prejudice flowed from that abuse”
• excusable neglect requires some reasonable basis for noncompliance within the stated period
• excusable neglect requires some reasonable basis for noncompliance within the stated period

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).