Legal Opinion
Jimmy Lee Wright v. Robert A. Deyton
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided April 16, 1985No. 84-8343PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Per curiam
This matter is before this panel on appellee’s motion to dismiss the appeal for lack of jurisdiction. Appellee contends that appellant Wright failed to comply with the filing requirements of Fed.R.App.P. 4(a)(4) and (5) in that neither his notice of appeal nor his motion to extend the time for filing a notice of appeal were timely filed. The district court concluded that even though the motion to extend time and the notice of appeal were received beyond the time limits of Fed.R.App.P. 4(a), the circumstances of this case warranted relaxation of these rules: Wright’s good faith reliance on the…
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