Comfort v. Lynn School Committee

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• holding that limitations in plaintiff’s ability to prepare for trial due to 23 his imprisonment were not exceptional circumstances to appoint counsel
• holding' district court’s dismissal of plaintiffs’ complaint challenging constitutionality of law did not have prospective application under Rule 60(b)(5)
• holding that Rule 60(b)(5) requires “a direct connection between the prior judgment and the supposedly reversing judgment” and that the “mere emergence of controlling precedent in some other case that shows the incorrectness of the prior judgment is not sufficient”
• affirming denial of relief and describing limited scope of last clause of subsection (b)(5) with regard to prospective application of forward-looking injunctions and consent decrees
• employing de novo review \about the meaning or interpretation\ of a Federal Rule of Civil Procedure
• explaining that \finality is fundamental to our judicial system\

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