Attention Federal Court Litigators: Statutory Time-Periods Technical Amendments Act Signed

On May 7, 2009, President Obama signed H.R. 1626, Statutory Time-Periods Technical Amendments Act of 2009, Pub. L. No. 111-16 [Thomas]. The Act amends 28 statutory deadlines making them consistent with time-computation amendments to the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure, Federal Rules of Bankruptcy Procedure, Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, and Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure approved by the Supreme Court on March 26, 2009. The effective date of the legislation is December 1, 2009. [JH]