Berg v. Underwood's Hair Adaption Process, Inc.

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• holding the court of appeals lacked jurisdiction to consider objections to clerk's order taxing costs because the district court had not yet ruled on such objections
• holding the court of appeals lacked jurisdic- tion to consider objections to clerk’s order taxing costs be- cause the district court had not yet ruled on such objections
• district judge’s “outside research” not reversible error because “judge stated he did not rely on those outside sources in reaching his conclusions and this appellate court relies on those representations”
• government’s failure to object to court’s “outside research” during trial constituted procedural default
• “The trial judge may not . . . undertake an independent mission of finding facts ‘outside the record of a bench trial over which he [presides].’” (citation omitted)
• “The trial judge may not . . . undertake an independent mission of finding facts ‘outside the record of a bench trial over which he [presides].’” (quoting Price Bros. Co. v. Phila. Gear Corp., 629 F.2d 444, 447 (6th Cir. 1980)) (second alteration in original)

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