Montgomery v. SmithKline Beecham Corp.

How courts have described this case

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• a plaintiff who files a motion for additional time for service of process before expiration of the service period is only “more likely [to] succeed in demonstrating diligence than a plaintiff who does nothing.”
• “[A] plaintiff who — prior to expiration of the service period — files a motion representing that he or she has been unable to serve process, will more likely succeed in demonstrating diligence than a plaintiff who does nothing.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).