Legal Opinion
Velez-Cortes v. Awning Windows, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided July 9, 2004No. 03-2277PublishedCited by 85 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SELYA, Circuit Judge.
This appeal tells a cautionary tale of the risks run by parties who adopt a laissez- faire attitude toward court-imposed deadlines. The defendants in this case — Awning Windows, Inc. (AWI) and the Estate of Ismael Nieves-Valle (the Estate) — acted in that fashion. The district court, after patiently granting several extensions and issuing pointed warnings, finally decided that enough was enough. It held the defendants to the deadlines previously announced, denied certain of their motions for noncompliance with the court’s scheduling order, disregarded the defendants’…
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