Legal Opinion
Torres v. Commonwealth of PR
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided April 4, 2007No. 06-1771PublishedCited by 38 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SELYA, Senior Circuit Judge.
In this case, the district court eschewed any evaluation of the merits of a potentially dispositive pretrial motion asserting sovereign and qualified immunity, instead denying the motion because it had been filed beyond a clearly communicated deadline. This interlocutory appeal ensued. After careful consideration, we conclude that we have jurisdiction to entertain this appeal but that the district court acted within the encincture of its discretion in denying the belated motion on temporal grounds. The tale follows.
I. BACKGROUND
In December of 2002, the plaintiffs…
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