The Mennen Company v. The Gillette Company

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that, in the context of Rule 77(d), “it is customarily the duty of trial counsel to mon- itor the docket and to advise himself when the court enters an order against which he wishes to protest.”
• stating that a failure to monitor the docket “is indeed negligent, but where [an] omission occurs because the party has been misled by action of the court or its officers, such neglect may be excusable”
• “[I]t is customarily the duty of trial counsel to monitor the docket and to advise himself when the court enters an order against which he wishes to protest.”
• “[I]t is customarily the duty of trial counsel to monitor the docket and to advise himself when the court enters an order against which he wishes to protest.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).