Broyhill Furniture Industries, Inc. v. Craftmaster Furniture Corporation

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that fraud on the court means “a fraud perpetrated by officers of the court so that the judicial machinery cannot perform in the usual manner its impartial task of adjudging cases”
• referring to Fed.R.Civ.P. 60(b) (“This rule does not limit the power of a court to entertain an independent action to relieve a party from a judgment, order, or proceeding ... or to set aside a judgment for fraud upon the court.”)
• no relief under 60(b)(6) where fraudulent evidence was not submitted to court
• section 1983 claims must be premised on violation of federal 13 constitutional right
• “[l]t is well established that a judgment is void for purposes of 60(b)(4) only when the court that rendered the judgment lacked jurisdiction or failed to act in accordance with due process of law.”
• “[I]t is well established that a judgment is void for purposes of 60(b)(4) only when the court that rendered the judgment lacked jurisdiction or failed to act in accordance with due process of law.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).