Legal Opinion
Joseph Latham v. Dominick's Finer Foods
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided July 14, 1998No. 98-1392PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Chief Judge.
The timeliness of the plaintiffs appeal in this employment discrimination case depends on whether his Rule 59 motion in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois was timely. (A timely motion would toll his time to appeal, Fed. R.App. P. 4(a)(4); an untimely one would not.) That in turn depends on whether Friday, December 26, 1997 (the day after Christmas), should be excluded from the ten days allowed for filing such a motion, for December 26 was Latham’s tenth day. Whether it should be excluded depends on the meaning of the provision of…
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