Stanton v. COM., DEPT. OF TRANSP.

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• “The law is well settled that statutory appeal periods are mandatory and may not be extended as a matter of grace or mere indulgence.”
• “[I]f an attorney entrusts the responsibilities of preparing and filing legal papers with his staff, the attorney has a continuing responsibility to see that these duties are properly and timely performed[.]”
• “[I]f an attorney entrusts the responsibilities of preparing and filing legal papers with his staff, the attorney has a continuing responsibility to see that these duties are properly and timely performed[.]”
• where counsel’s assistant was notified of the appeal assignment on February 10th but was out of the office thereafter until February 17th and waited another 11 days after her return to the office to finally process the appeal on February 28th
• 11-day lapse exceeded threshold for nunc pro tunc appeal
• 11-day lapse exceeded threshold for nunc pro tunc appeal

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).