Valentino Castro v. Board of Education of the City of Chicago, Succeeded by the Chicago School Reform Board of Trustees

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• explaining that because the decision of whether to grant relief under rule 60(b) is discretionary, the appellate court’s review must be “extremely deferential”
• addressing whether the plaintiff’s counsel’s failure to timely file a pretrial order was excusable neglect
• Although “the circumstances of the present case may arguably constitute excusable neglect ... they do not compel that conclusion.”
• Although “the circumstances of the present case may arguably con- stitute excusable neglect . . . they do not compel that conclusion.”
• noting the trial court’s discretion under Rule 60(b)(1)

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