The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals plan to re-open for business this week in Houston ran into a logistics problem — furniture for the Court’s personnel could not be delivered until this weekend. Accordingly, the Court has pushed back its re-opening date to September 21 and the new deadline for filing non-emergency pleadings is October 10. Here is the Court’s announcement and related Order.
Meanwhile, this Chronicle article on the Fifth Circuit’s operations notes that none of the Court’s files in its New Orleans offices appear to have been damaged by the flood.