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· 3/17/1994

Paul S. Doherty, Jr. v. Teamsters Pension Trust Fund Of Philadelphia And Vicinity

Citations

  • 16 F.3d 1386

How courts have described this case

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  • holding that while not every “poor choice by a lawyer or law firm that lands a party in the wrong forum merits equitable tolling[,] . . . some mistakes in extraordinary circumstances merit forbearance”
  • allowing time to toll because of the death of the petitioner's attorney
  • attorney unable to work and “was in his home or the hospital until his death”
  • \[W]hether an individual has ever had control of a contributing company as an alter ego is a question for the courts to decide.\ (first emphasis in original; second emphasis added)
  • attorney unable to work and “was in his home or the hospital until his death”
  • “[W]hether an individual has ever had control of a contributing company as an alter ego is a question for the courts to decide.” (first emphasis in original; second emphasis added)

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