Department of Human Services v. S. W.

How courts have described this case

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• noting that Rule 60(b)(6) provides courts the authority “adequate to enable them to vacate judgments whenever such action is appropriate to accomplish justice”
• finding that Rule 60(b)(6) enables a court to “accomplish justice”
• finding that Rule 60(b)(6) enables a court to \accomplish justice\
• upholding relief under Rule 60 when the government sought to denaturalize the movant-inmate after incarcerating him for multiple years, during which several of his attempts to challenge their determinations went awry
• denaturalization decree entered by default more than a year previously against petitioner who could not defend himself at that time because of incarceration, poverty, and illness
• motion to vacate default granted because at the time that judgment was entered, movant was ill, penniless and in jail, thus unable to appear and present his defense

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).