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In A Question Of First Impression, the Sixth Circuit Holds That An Electronic Filing Error Does Not Doom A Party’s Appeal

By Steve Delchin on May 6th, 2013 Posted in Recent Cases

We’re all too familiar with them: Electronic filing mistakes in the Case Management and Electronic Case Files (CM/ECF) system (now adopted by every Circuit). They include everything from filing in the wrong case to submitting the wrong document. And we’re just as familiar with corrected electronic docket entries. As we all know, the CM/ECF system does… Continue Reading

Sixth Circuit Flexibly Construes Notices of Appeal

By Carlee Toth on July 2nd, 2012 Posted in Recent Cases

In In re Jones, Case No. 12-1198, the Sixth Circuit construed a plaintiff’s objections to the district court’s judgment as a notice of appeal because it was filed within thirty days of the judgment. The objections did not name the Sixth Circuit as required by Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 3(c)(1)(C), but the Court held… Continue Reading