Legal Opinion
Toby Cohen v. Empire Blue Cross and Blue Shield
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided April 15, 1998No. 97-7144PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Per curiam
Toby Cohen, a pro se litigant, appeals from an order of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Allen G. Schwartz, Judge) denying her motion for an extension of time to file a notice of appeal. Because we conclude that the district court either did not have jurisdiction to consider the motion or the motion was unnecessary and should have been dismissed without consideration of the merits, we vacate and remand with instructions to dismiss the motion.
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In 1993, Cohen filed suit in New York state court against Empire Blue Cross and Blue Shield (“Empire”) because…
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