Pro Tier Module
Legal Deadlines & Practice Calculators
Compute court deadlines, statutes of limitations, and judgment interest by transparent, cited rules.
This tool runs inside GDBS Pro. What it computes and the authorities it applies are below.
The problem
Litigation deadlines turn on calendar-versus-court days, federal-holiday roll-forwards, and jurisdiction-specific limitation periods, where a single miscount can blow a filing or a claim.
The local-first solution
A deterministic, client-side calculator computes due dates, SOL deadlines, and judgment interest by exact integer and UTC-date arithmetic you can audit line by line, citing the controlling rule, with nothing uploaded.
What it does
Deadline calculator in calendar or court/business days, skipping weekends and federal holidays (5 U.S.C. 6103)
FRCP 6(a)-style roll-forward when the last day lands on a weekend or holiday
Statute-of-limitations deadline by jurisdiction, claim type, and accrual date
Federal SOL periods encoded from statute; a starter set of states as reference data
Pre/post-judgment interest, simple or compound with selectable frequency
Observed-day Saturday-to-Friday and Sunday-to-Monday holiday shift
Honest scope
A deadline, SOL, and interest calculator, not legal advice; local rules, standing orders, or a tolling event can change any computed date. The state SOL packs are reference tables that do not encode discovery-rule accrual, tolling, or carve-outs - confirm against the controlling authority. Federal periods cite the statute.
Authorities cited
- 5 U.S.C. 6103 - Federal holidays (and the standard Saturday->Friday / Sunday->Monday observed-day rule).
- Fed. R. Civ. P. 6(a) - Computing time; last-day-on-a-weekend-or-legal-holiday roll-forward; excluding intermediate weekends/holidays for short periods.
- 28 U.S.C. 1658(a) - Default 4-year limitations period for federal civil actions arising under post-1990 statutes.
- 28 U.S.C. 2415, 2401 - United States as a party: limitations on contract and tort actions.
- State periods are general references to each state code (e.g. Cal. Code Civ. Proc.; N.Y. C.P.L.R.; Tex. Civ. Prac. & Rem. Code 16.x; Fla. Stat. 95.11; 735 ILCS 5/13) and must be confirmed against the live code.
- 28 U.S.C. 1961(a) - Federal post-judgment interest at the weekly-average 1-year constant-maturity Treasury yield (Federal Reserve H.15), compounded annually. The optional rate-fetch uses Treasury FiscalData avg-interest-rates as the closest KEYLESS standin (not the 1-year CMT) and labels the series + as-of date used.
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Compute the deadlines
Run the deadline and interest math in your browser and route the cited dates into a Sandbox set or a Worklog case. Nothing about the matter is uploaded to anyone's cloud.