Respondent To High Court: Equitable Tolling Permitted In Appeal Of Class Case

Mealey's (October 2, 2018, 10:29 AM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — Nothing in Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23(f) prevents it from being read to permit equitable tolling, but that consideration isn’t even necessary, a dietary supplement consumer argues in his respondent brief filed Oct. 1 in the U.S. Supreme Court in an appeal challenging a decision to toll the Rule’s 14-day deadline, adding that his appeal was also “timely under the plain language of the Federal Rules” (Nutraceutical Corporation v. Troy Lambert, No. 17-1094, U.S. Sup.)....

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