- The federal judiciary is abandoning a judge's proposal to improve work-life balance among attorneys by rolling back filing deadlines and barring lawyers nationwide from submitting legal briefs and other documents electronically as late as midnight.
- U.S. Circuit Judge Michael Chagares, the now-chief judge of the Philadelphia-based 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, first pitched the change in 2019. His court adopted a 5 p.m. deadline in May over widespread opposition from lawyers.
- "I think it's fine to let things work out in the 3rd Circuit and not embark upon any further examination of the national rule at this time," said U.S. District Judge John Bates, the chair of U.S. Judicial Conference's Committee on Rules of Practice and Procedure.
Bloomberg Law's story is US Judiciary Rejects Proposal for Earlier Filing Deadlines
“Let the Third Circuit be the Third Circuit, see how it works out,” said Judge Jay S. Bybee of the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, who is chair of the Advisory Committee on Appellate Rules, which met Thursday
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