Roanoke Times
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DATE: FRIDAY, February 22, 1991                   TAG: 9102220109
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-2   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: WASHINGTON                                LENGTH: Short

JUSTICE TO REJECT PLEAS FOR APPEAL EXTENSIONS

Scalia said he will deny such deadline-extension requests sparked by an attorney's request for outside legal help or the attorney's own withdrawal from the case - unless, he stipulated, a withdrawal was "a reasonably unforeseeable occurrence."

Supreme Court rules require appeals in all cases to be filed within 90 days of the lower court decision being challenged. But a justice may grant an extension of up to 60 days "for good cause shown."

- Associated Press