United States Sixth Circuit

Following entry of an order enjoining plaintiffs from obtaining certain discovery from defendant and from prosecuting certain claims in a state court action against their former lawyer, denial of plaintiffs' motion to reopen the time to file an appeal of the order is affirmed where the district court did not abuse its discretion in denying plaintiffs' motion where their counsel opted not to register his email address with the court's Case Management/Electronic Case Filing system, and then failed to monitor the electronic docket.

Appellate Information

• Argued 06/08/2007
• Decided 08/10/2007
• Published 08/10/2007

Judges

• Before: BATCHELDER and COLE, Circuit Judges;  PHILLIPS, District Judge.

Court

• United States Sixth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:Andrew M. Greenwell, Harris & Greenwell, Corpus Christi, Texas, for Appellants.  Thomas S. Kilbane, Squire, Sanders & Dempsey, Cleveland, Ohio, for Appellees.   ON BRIEF:Andrew M. Greenwell, Harris & Greenwell, Corpus Christi, Texas, for Appellants.  Thomas S. Kilbane, Squire, Sanders & Dempsey, Cleveland, Ohio, David W. Brooks, Shook Hardy & Bacon, Kansas City, Missouri, Manuel Lopez, Shook Hardy & Bacon, Houston, Texas, for Appellees.