Opinion ID: 1476400
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 6

Heading: Federal Precedent Persuasive

Text: In Canaday v. Superior Court , this Court noted that the construction of the Superior Court Civil Rules are greatly influenced by the federal judiciary's construction of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure since these two sets of rules are almost identical. [7] In the context of denying a motion to open a default judgment, an analogous case arose in the Fifth Circuit. [8] In the Rogers v. Hartford Life [9] matter, Hartford failed to respond to a complaint because a commercial carrier lost the complaint while attempting to deliver it from the appellant's agent to appellant's claims office. [10] The Fifth Circuit affirmed the trial judge's determination that this was not excusable neglect. The Fifth Circuit stated that the corporation should have implemented at least `minimum internal procedural safeguards' to avoid such mishaps. [11] Similarly, in the Eleventh Circuit, in Gibbs v. Air Canada , the sole reason that the appellant offered to explain its failure to answer the complaint was that a mail clerk misplaced the complaint. [12] The Eleventh Circuit held that this did not constitute a sufficient excuse. [13]