United States DC Circuit

Where the district court's initial decision failed to comply with F. R. Civ. Proc. 58, defendant's time for filing an appeal does not begin to run and motion to reopen the time for filing an appeal from denial of a habeas petition is unnecessary.

Appellate Information

• Argued 11/17/2000
• Decided 07/13/2001
• Published 07/13/2001

Judges

• Before:  SENTELLE, HENDERSON, and GARLAND, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States DC Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Mary M. Calkins, Student Counsel, argued the cause as amicus curiae on the side of appellant.   With her on the briefs were Steven H. Goldblatt (appointed by the court), Director, and Adam N. Steinman, Supervising Attorney, Appellate Litigation Program, Georgetown University Law Center.


• For Appellees:
  
• Elizabeth H. Danello, Assistant U.S. Attorney, argued the cause for appellee.   With her on the brief were Wilma A. Lewis, U.S. Attorney at the time the brief was filed, John R. Fisher and Roy W. McLeese, III, Assistant U.S. Attorneys. Mary-Patrice Brown, Assistant U.S. Attorney, entered an appearance.