Court Opinion

ID: 9459209
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-04 21:13:35.772928+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:36:04.043517
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FAIRCHILD, Circuit Judge
(concurring).
Plaintiff’s counsel had been permitted to withdraw April 6 and plaintiff received a copy of the order. The pretrial conference for April 30 had previously been set, but there is no suggestion that plaintiff was ever notified. Under the circumstances a presumption that his counsel told him is unreasonable. Dismissal for failure to appear without no-tic of his duty to do so seems to me an abuse of discretion. I could agree, however, that because of the lack of diligence and other deficiencies in the motion to reinstate, the denial of that motion was not an abuse of discretion.