Paul Revere Life Insurance Co. v. Kahn

The Paul Revere Life Insurance Company seeks certiorari review of a decision of the Eleventh Circuit Court’s Appellate Division, granting its motion for extension of time only until June 2, 2004, the day when the preparation of the trial transcript will be completed. We find that the circuit court departed from the essential requirements of the law; thus we grant the petition, quash the circuit court order with instructions to grant an extension to June 20, 2004.

This Petition is unopposed. It is fundamentally unfair to require a party to prepare a brief without a transcript. Cf.…