Becker v. Montgomery

Dale G. BECKER, Petitioner, Betty MONTGOMERY, Attorney General of Ohio, et al.
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued April 16, 2001 Decided May 29, 2001
Full case name	Becker v. Montgomery, 532 U.S. 757 (2001)
Docket no.	00–6374
Citations	532 U.S. 757 (more) 121 S.Ct. 1801; 149 L.Ed.2d 983
Argument	Oral argument
Reargument	Reargument
Opinion announcement	Opinion announcement
Holding
The Federal Rules requiring a notice of appeal to be signed derives from Rule 11(a), and so does the remedy for a signature's omission; the Sixth Circuit should have accepted Becker's corrected notice.
Court membership
Chief Justice William Rehnquist Associate Justices John P. Stevens · Sandra Day O'Connor Antonin Scalia · Anthony Kennedy David Souter · Clarence Thomas Ruth Bader Ginsburg · Stephen Breyer
Laws applied
Rule 11(a) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure

Becker v. Montgomery, 532 U.S. 757 (2001) is a Supreme Court case that addressed Rule 11(a) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and whether the failure to sign a notice of appeal requires a court to dismiss the appeal.^[1]