Key legal question
Whether the federal appeal was filed within the statutory 30-day deadline.
Extracted holding
The appeal was filed after the deadline and is therefore inadmissible.
Extracted reasoning
The challenged judgment was served on 2013-10-17; the appeal period began on 2013-10-18 and expired on 2013-11-18. The submission dated 2013-11-20 and posted on 2013-11-21 was late.