Mealey's (August 8, 2017, 3:02 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 4(a)(5)(C) provides a 30-day limit for filing a notice of appeal that is just as “jurisdictional” as all other aspects of Rule 4 and is mandatory and “unalterable,” two employers argue in their July 31 respondents brief filed in an age discrimination suit before the U.S. Supreme Court, adding that even if the rule was “otherwise open to equitable exceptions, the ‘unique circumstances’ doctrine would not apply” (Charmaine Hamer v. Neighborhood Housing Services of Chicago, et al., No. 16-658, U.S. Sup.)....