Walter v. Blue Cross & Blue Shield United

How courts have described this case

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

• finding that a secretary's filing mistake resulting in a late response, where there was no indication of bad faith or prejudice, constituted \excusable neglect\
• noting that “excusable neglect” encompasses situation where secretary failed to “record the applicable deadline — the type of ‘innocent oversight’ involved in Cheney.”
• reasoning that the “court should have set aside its order of dismissal” under Rule 60(b)(1) when a one-month delay would not have “had an adverse impact on the . . . court or its resources”
• finding excusable neglect when a calendaring error caused the plaintiff to miss a response deadline

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).