Yes, but generally that means that Sammy would get to present their evidence in reply, not have a press kit ready to roll to the media. Sammy missed the deadline, and then proceeded to piss the judge off by trying to get it in 10 times (or so, don't recall article exactly, maybe 11) with which the Judge (in my mind kind of understandably) started getting pissy with Sammy.
No car analogy, but it's something like a student handing in a term paper late, prof says no, student keeps badgering prof to accept it, after a few tries the prof tells student to fuck off and threatens to call campus security.