Tango Music, LLC v. Deadquick Music, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• affirming district court’s denial of a Rule 60(b) motion based on the moving party’s lawyer’s neglect, explaining that a party “should not be permitted to shift the burden of its [lawyer]’s neglect to the district court and the” non-moving parties
• “If the lawyer’s neglect protected the client from ill consequences, neglect would become far too common.”
• “If the lawyer’s neglect protected the client from ill consequences, 5 Easley’s alternate request for relief, under Rule 60(b)(6
• “We have held in previous cases that the presence of foreigners on both sides of a diversity case does not destroy diversity.”
• “A reinforcing consideration is the desirability of promoting international harmony ... by giving foreigners access to the national court system, where they are less likely to encounter provincial prejudices when litigating against U.S. citizens_”
• “[i]f a party’s lawyer is guilty of professional malpractice ..., the party has a remedy against him, but it should not be permitted to shift the burden of its agent’s neglect to the district court and the defendants”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).