Antar v. Mike Egan Insurance Agency, Inc.

Early Twentieth Century viewers were frozen to their nickelodeons by the heart-stopping melodrama “Curfew Shall Not *338Ring Tonight.”1 With her lover Basil doomed to the gallows at the ringing of the curfew bell, the beleaguered Bess strove heroically and against every manner of complication to hold back the inexorable ticking of the clock. In the melodrama, the damsel in distress, unlike the appellants facing a deadline in the case at hand, ultimately prevailed, climbing to the top of the belfry and strapping herself to the bell’s clapper to muffle its sound with her battered body.…