Executive Summary: A federal trial court in D.C. recently dismissed the Amended Complaint of a former professor at the University of the District of Columbia (“UDC” or “University”) due to his failure to timely oppose a Motion to Dismiss, finding that the plaintiff’s counsel’s reasons for the failure to timely respond to the motion did not rise to the level of “excusable neglect” under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 6(b)(1).
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