Sometimes, having a “long-planned European vacation” is reason enough to get a person excused from attending to certain duties.
But that didn’t work for a litigant who presented cross-Atlantic travel as a reason for failing to object to a class action settlement before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. In a Monday ruling, it labeled his excuse “lame” and dismissed his appeal.
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