More Second Circuit Clerk's Office hijinx

Norm Pattis tells a story of the Second Circuit’s Clerk’s Office losing his briefs.  A couple of times.  It reads, in part:

My client has two appeals against the same party arising out of one set of facts. We filed one notice of appeal in the District Court. We paid one docketing fee. We filed one set of preliminary papers. And ... somehow ... two dissimilar docket numbers have been generated with papers and pleadings apparently randomly assigned to each docket number.