Giving some needed clarification on offers of judgment, a federal judge held Monday that there’s a two-week window of opportunity to accept, after which the offer is deemed withdrawn.
In a published decision, Whitehouse v. Target Corp., 10-cv-1078, District Judge Jose Linares in Newark said Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 68 leaves it “open to interpretation whether an offer is to be deemed ‘unaccepted’ only if that offer is explicitly rejected by the opposing party within the Rule’s 14-day period, or whether an offer may be deemed ‘unaccepted’ if the opposing party fails to respond over a period of time beyond the Rule’s 14 days.”
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