Aygen v. District of Columbia Public Schools

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• explaining, in the Rule 60(b) context, that “the movant must provide the district court with reason to believe that vacating the judgment will not be an empty exercise or a futile gesture” (alteration and internal quotation mark omitted
• “Courts should deny motions for reconsideration when it appears that ‘the losing party is using the motion as an instrumentality for arguing .., new arguments that could have been raised prior to final judgment’ ”
• “Courts should deny motions for reconsideration when it appears that the losing party is using the motion as an instrumentality for arguing the same theory or asserting new arguments that could have been raised prior to final judgment.” (citation modified)
• “Courts should deny motions for reconsideration when it appears that the losing party is using the motion as an instrumentality for arguing the same theory or asserting new arguments that could have been raised prior to final judgment.” (internal quotation marks omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).