Smith v. Merrill Lynch Pierce Fenner & Smith

How courts have described this case

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• applying Totman and holding that dismissal of the appeal for failure to file a brief within the allotted time was “too harsh a remedy”
• dismissal may be too harsh a sanction for a party’s failure to file a timely brief
• negligence in hiring and supervising

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).