Normandie Amusement Corp. v. Loew's Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a decedent’s lawyer had “standing” to file necessary procedural motions
• recognizing “extensive delays in the appointment of a representative for the decedent's estate”
• noting \Rule 25(a) does not authorize a district court to extend [the 90-day] time period once it has expired\
• “Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 6(b) is a rule of general application giving discretion to the trial courts to enlarge time limits either before or after they have expired.”
• “[b]efore the 1963 amendment to Fed. R.Civ.P. 25, a court was required to dismiss a ease if no motion for substitution was filed within two years after the date of death”
• A “proper party” for substitution is either “a successor of the deceased party” or “a representative of the deceased party’s estate—a person lawfully designated by state authority to represent the deceased’s estate.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).