Whorton v. United States

ORDER

KOZINSKI, Chief Judge.

In a terse motion dated October 29, 1982, defendant requested a 30-day enlargement to file its answer, representing as follows:

The reasons upon which this motion for enlargement are [sic] based are that the files necessary to prepare an answer to the petition are located in the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Norfolk and it and the Customs Service need the additional time to prepare their respective files for the use of the Department in the drafting [typing garbled].1

The clerk granted the motion pursuant to RUSCC 77.2, enlarging the time to file an answer to December 1,…