Stirm v. Puckett

How courts have described this case

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• setting aside default judgment against defendant apparently impaired by mental illness
• setting aside default judgment against defendant apparently impaired by mental illness
• “T[he] overlap between mistake and excusable neglect necessarily implies the existence of cases where an act or omission might be treated as a mistake of law but also could be treated as excusable neglect.”
• “T[he] overlap between mistake and excusable neglect necessarily implies the existence of cases where an act or omission might be treated as a mistake of law but also could be treated as excusable neglect.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).