Court Opinion

ID: 9548771
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 18:08:35.322566+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:19:24.764854
License: Public Domain

THOMAS, Justice,
specially concurring.
I agree with the result in this case because, under any rule of computation, Sellers’ notice of appeal was timely filed. In my judgment, this means that the discussion by the majority of whether the three-day period is to be added to the original period or be treated as a separate period is dictum. It is dictum in which I cannot join, however. I believe that, when there is a thirty-day period involved, the three days simply should be added to the original period, making a total of thirty-three days. Conversely, if the period of time involved is ten days or less, I would follow the rule espoused in 4A C. Wright & A. Miller, Federal Practice and Procedure: Civil 2d § 1171 at 516-521 (1987). So long as attorneys know what the rule is, I do not perceive this as structuring undue complexity.