Effective December 1, 2009, the rules for computing time in federal courts will change. These changes affect the Appellate, Bankruptcy, Civil and Criminal Rules of Procedure.
Under the current federal rules, intermediate weekends and holidays are excluded when calculating time periods fewer than 8 days. The amended rules count intermediate weekends and holidays for all time periods.
All time deadlines in the current rules were reviewed. Deadlines of less than 30 days were changed to multiples of 7 days so that the expiration of the deadline ordinarily would occur on a weekday.
Under the revised rules: 5 day deadlines become 7 days 10 and 15 day deadlines become 14 days 20 day deadlines become 21 days 25 day deadlines become 28 days
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