Problem with the brief

For our appellate brief, one issue was whether the employer responded in a timely manner to a complaint. The complaint came on March 30, the response on May 2. I figured less than a week wasn’t too bad, so mentioned the short turn around time. When I started reading my opponent’s brief, he cited some precedent and, though all of the circuit courts may not have adopted the rule yet, apparently there’s a fairly new legal concept that could hurt me: April. I missed the whole friggin’ month. This isn’t the first time I’ve done this; I found a case from March 30, 2005 which I though was two weeks old. It turns out it was closer to six. It’s amazing how much one learns in law school: from the dormant commerce clause to the intricacies and curios of the Gregorian calendar.


Consecutive days without a poisoning: 3