Fannie R. Braxton v. United States of America and Department of Health & Human Services

U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit · Decided 1987-04-29

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OPINION OF THE COURT WEIS, Circuit Judge. The issue in this case is whether counsel’s lapse in monitoring service of process coupled with a private process server’s unexplained failure to timely serve a complaint pursuant to Fed.R.Civ.P. 4 is a proper ground for dismissal of the suit. We conclude that inadvertence does not excuse compliance with the Rule…

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