No Filing Extension Through Nunc Pro Tunc Order 
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Published: October 24, 2012
Tags: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Civil Procedure
A plaintiff physician does not get extra time to file her state law claims against defendants alleging the bad faith use of the medical peer review process to force her to leave defendant hospital; the 4th Circuit says the district court improperly used the nunc pro tunc device to extend the filing period, and the ...
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