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longtermmemmory is right that motion practice is different - it's what I do every day all the time. The one unforgiveable error in motion practice concerns mistakes in the relief request as due process issues are involved there. I'll have to pay more attention to this story, and be thankful that I don't have to deal with this particular motion 90 miles away.

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I just reread the article. The drafting error is in the proposed order granting relief, which is bad but not fatal as it would have been in the motion's relief request. The judge has to let the other party comment on any nunc pro tunc changes in the proposed order. That's where the delay comes in.

Lawyers are paid big buck$ not to make such mistakes.