{"id":90,"date":"2015-03-29T20:03:11","date_gmt":"2015-03-30T00:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/appellatelaw\/?p=90"},"modified":"2015-03-29T20:03:11","modified_gmt":"2015-03-30T00:03:11","slug":"the-dangers-of-relying-on-ecf-notices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/appellatelaw\/2015\/03\/29\/the-dangers-of-relying-on-ecf-notices\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dangers of Relying on ECF Notices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eighteen lawyers at two different law firms received ECF notifications of orders denying their client\u2019s post-judgment motions. But the ECF notifications did not accurately describe the content of those orders. The attorneys relied on the incorrect descriptions in the ECF notifications and did not open the orders or realize that the post-judgment motions had been denied. As a result, they missed the 30-day deadline to appeal a $40 million judgment entered against their client. The Federal Circuit has now<a href=\"http:\/\/cases.justia.com\/federal\/appellate-courts\/cafc\/14-1302\/14-1302-2015-03-19.pdf?ts=1426780938\"> affirmed<\/a> the trial court\u2019s refusal to extend or reopen the deadline to appeal under Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 4(a)(5) and (6).<\/p>\n<p>This cautionary tale highlights a simple point: a lawyer should open and read every document received by ECF notification. Lawyers who rely on the clerk\u2019s description in notifications do so at their own risk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eighteen lawyers at two different law firms received ECF notifications of orders denying their client\u2019s post-judgment motions. But the ECF notifications did not accurately describe the content of those orders. The attorneys relied on the incorrect descriptions in the ECF notifications and did not open the orders or realize that the post-judgment motions had been &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/appellatelaw\/2015\/03\/29\/the-dangers-of-relying-on-ecf-notices\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Dangers of Relying on ECF Notices&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[25,83,60,31],"ppma_author":[239],"class_list":["post-90","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-appellate","tag-fed-r-app-p-4","tag-palumbos","tag-procedure"],"authors":[{"term_id":239,"user_id":93,"is_guest":0,"slug":"rmpalumbos","display_name":"Robert M. Palumbos","avatar_url":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/appellatelaw\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2025\/09\/palumbosrob-100x100.jpg","author_category":"","last_name":"Palumbos","first_name":"Robert M.","job_title":"","user_url":"http:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/attorneys\/robertmpalumbos.html","description":"Rob Palumbos is chair of the Appellate division of Duane Morris' Trial Practice Group. Rob is an appellate lawyer with a track record in over 80 appeals of preserving trial court wins and reversing trial court losses. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/attorneys\/robertmpalumbos.html\">Read his bio.<\/a>"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/appellatelaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/appellatelaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/appellatelaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/appellatelaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/appellatelaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/appellatelaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/appellatelaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/appellatelaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/appellatelaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/appellatelaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=90"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}