Q: Motion for Enlarged Extension?
I had a special set hearing scheduled and the plaintiff filed a motion for an enlarged extension of time due to COVID 19. Can I make the plaintiff produce medical documentation if I believe they are lying and just attempting to delay the hearing?
A:
No. Teaching opportunity: The last thing any court wants to see in pro se litigation are pro se litigants expanding
very simple disputes into major litigation. You are trying to do something that (a) is not helpful to your case; (b) does not matter; and (c) might anger the judge. You can object, but do it for a VALID reason, not some angry suspicion.
Terrence H Thorgaard agrees with this answer
A: By the way, the question contains a redundancy: "enlargement of time" (which sounds like something a physicist such as Einstein might have theorized about) and "extension of time" mean the same thing.
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