Quillie B. Woodham v. The American Cystoscope Company of Pelham, N. Y., and the Xyz Corporation

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• holding that dismissal without consideration of the merits of a motion to dismiss under local rule requiring response within ten days of the filing of a motion was unwarranted
• concluding that the district court erroneously interpreted a local rule providing that parties had 10 days to submit a brief in opposition to a motion as permitting the court to grant the motion for failure to comply with that deadline
• concluding that the district court erroneously interpreted a local rule providing that parties had 10 days to submit a brief in opposition to a motion as permitting the court to grant the motion for failure to comply with that deadline
• finding that automatic dismissal for failure to timely file a response conflicts with Rule 1 that rules ‘shall be construed to secure the just, speedy, and inexpensive determination of every action.”
• citations to sanctions imposed on erring attorney and use of conditional order of dismissal

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