AMERICAN EXPRESS TRAVEL RELATED SERVICES CO., INC. v. Farley

OPINION

GRIESA, District Judge.

This is an appeal from an order of the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York, Francis G. Conrad, J., dated August 15, 1991, dismissing an American Express Travel Related Services Co., Inc. Complaint to Determine Dischargeability of Debt. Relying solely on the time-stamp from the clerk’s office, Judge Conrad dismissed the complaint as not timely filed.

American Express, however, has demonstrated that its papers actually, reached the clerk’s office three days before they were stamped, and so still within the requisite limitations…