Rivera-Velázquez v. Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection & Insurance

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that that “in litigation matters, lawyers act for their clients[.]”
• treating Rule 60(b) motion based upon attorney’s illness as falling under Rule 60(b)(1), which precluded any possibility of relief under Rule 60(b)(6)
• declining to find excusable neglect where “nothing about the attorney’s illness suggest[ed] a complete inability to communicate with the court and, in any event, another attorney had entered an appearance in the case”
• “This outstanding balance owed by the defendant is liquid, due and payable.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).