Friday, December 5, 2014

Friday after Thanksgiving--Not a Business Day

The fact that the day following the Thanksgiving Day is not a business day is not obvious. After all, most retail outlets on that day are gladly open for business--even earlier than usual--to keep up with the Black Friday sale spirit. Government Code 6700 does not mention it. However, it is a holiday, as established by these statutes:

CCP 135 adds the following friday to the list of judicial holidays. "Every Saturday and the day after Thanksgiving Day is a judicial holiday."

CCP 10 makes a judicial holiday a general holiday. And CCP 13 shifts a duty falling on a holiday to the "next business day."

Imagine soon revisions of CCP 133 and 134(d), in the light of the always open online filing.
CCP 134, establishes judicial holidays.

And if you think judicial holidays are easy to figure out, consider that the legislature just created one new such holiday for 2015, unintentionally.

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