amagi-litigation-deadlines

Compute litigation response deadlines from a trigger event and a date, with a markdown table and an .ics calendar file, and a citation for every rule applied.

Demo

$ amagi-litigation-deadlines calc --rules frcp --event answer-complaint --date 2026-10-19
NOT LEGAL ADVICE: This is not legal advice. amagi-litigation-deadlines computes dates from a
code-maintained summary of court rules. Every computed deadline must be verified by an attorney
against the court's current rules, local rules, standing orders, and any case-specific order
before you rely on it.

| Event | Trigger date | Deadline | Rolled forward? | Rule cite | Counting rule |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Answer to complaint (served, not waived) | 2026-10-19 | 2026-11-09 | no | Fed. R. Civ. P. 12(a)(1)(A)(i) | Fed. R. Civ. P. 6(a) |

Source rule set note: Current as of the 2026-10-20 build of this tool. Verify against the
official text at https://www.law.cornell.edu/rules/frcp or
https://www.uscourts.gov/rules-policies/current-rules-practice-procedure before relying on any
computed date.

Important: this is not legal advice

amagi-litigation-deadlines is a calculator, not a lawyer. It applies a code-maintained summary of a rule's day-counting method and holiday list. It does not know about local rules, standing orders, judge-specific procedures, electronic-service variations, prior extensions, or any court-specific closure that isn't on its bundled holiday list. Every deadline this tool computes must be independently verified by an attorney against the court's current rules before anyone relies on it. Missing a deadline is a malpractice risk — do not skip that verification step.

Install

pipx install amagi-litigation-deadlines

Usage

List the bundled rule sets:

$ amagi-litigation-deadlines list-rule-sets
frcp       Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (civil, district court) (counting rule: Fed. R. Civ. P. 6(a))
florida    Florida state courts (civil) (counting rule: Fla. R. Jud. Admin. 2.514(a))

List the events available in a rule set:

$ amagi-litigation-deadlines list-events --rules frcp
answer-after-waiver             60 day(s)  Fed. R. Civ. P. 12(a)(1)(A)(ii)  -- Answer after waiver of service (domestic defendant)
answer-after-waiver-foreign     90 day(s)  Fed. R. Civ. P. 12(a)(1)(A)(ii)  -- Answer after waiver of service (defendant outside any US judicial district)
answer-complaint                21 day(s)  Fed. R. Civ. P. 12(a)(1)(A)(i)  -- Answer to complaint (served, not waived)
answer-to-amended-pleading      14 day(s)  Fed. R. Civ. P. 15(a)(3)  -- Response to an amended pleading (minimum period; may be later if original response not yet due)
discovery-response              30 day(s)  Fed. R. Civ. P. 33(b)(2) / 34(b)(2) / 36(a)(3)  -- Response to interrogatories, document requests, or requests for admission
removal-notice                  30 day(s)  28 U.S.C. S 1446(b)(1); counting method per Fed. R. Civ. P. 6(a) (applies to statutory periods not otherwise specifying a method)  -- Notice of removal from state court
reply-to-counterclaim           21 day(s)  Fed. R. Civ. P. 12(a)(1)(B)  -- Reply to a counterclaim
reply-to-crossclaim             21 day(s)  Fed. R. Civ. P. 12(a)(1)(B)  -- Answer to a crossclaim

Compute a deadline and also write an .ics file you can import into your calendar:

$ amagi-litigation-deadlines calc --rules florida --event answer-complaint --date 2026-10-19 \
    --jurisdiction "Example Circuit Court, Example County" --ics deadline.ics

NOT LEGAL ADVICE: ...
Jurisdiction (informational only, not used in the calculation): Example Circuit Court, Example County

| Event | Trigger date | Deadline | Rolled forward? | Rule cite | Counting rule |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Answer to complaint | 2026-10-19 | 2026-11-09 | yes | Fla. R. Civ. P. 1.140(a)(1) | Fla. R. Jud. Admin. 2.514(a) |

Source rule set note: Current as of the 2026-10-20 build of this tool. Verify against the
official text at https://www.flcourts.gov/Resources-Services/Office-of-General-Counsel/Rules or
the Florida Bar's rules of procedure page before relying on any computed date.

Wrote deadline.ics

(The raw 20-day count from 2026-10-19 lands on Sunday 2026-11-08, so it rolls forward to the next non-weekend, non-holiday day, Monday 2026-11-09 — this is exactly the kind of roll-forward step you must re-verify against the court's calendar, since local closures aren't modeled here.)

--jurisdiction is a free-text label printed back for your own records; it is not used in the calculation (the rule set you pick with --rules drives the counting method and holiday list).

Rule sets and sources

Each bundled rule set is a YAML file under src/amagi_litigation_deadlines/data/, and every event in it carries its own rule citation. The two counting-method citations:

See src/amagi_litigation_deadlines/data/frcp.yaml and src/amagi_litigation_deadlines/data/florida.yaml for the per-event citations (e.g. Fed. R. Civ. P. 12(a)(1)(A)(i) for the standard answer-to-complaint deadline). Rules change — contributions that update a citation, add a jurisdiction, or fix a holiday list are welcome as PRs against the YAML files.

Adding a jurisdiction

Copy an existing file in src/amagi_litigation_deadlines/data/, change the id, name, counting_rule_cite, and holiday_set (add a new holiday function in holidays.py if the jurisdiction's legal-holiday list differs), then add events: entries with a label, days, and cite for each deadline. Add it to _BUNDLED in rules.py.

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License

MIT — see LICENSE. Copyright (c) 2026 AmagiLabs (Amagisolutionsgroup, Inc.).