Farrell Ex Rel. Farrell v. Dome Laboratories

How courts have described this case

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• noting that “clause (5) is typically invoked to obtain relief from declaratory judgment and injunctions whose continued enforcement becomes inequitable”
• noting that a litigant must show that their case involves “something more than one of the grounds stated in the first five clauses” to obtain relief under 60(b)(6) (internal citations omitted)
• “It is well settled that clause (6) and the first five clauses of Rule 60(b) are mutually exclusive.”
• dismissal without prejudice under Rule 41(a)(2) is a final judgment for purposes of appeal
• “That the original judgment was on appeal is irrelevant. The pendency of an appeal does not extend the one[-]year limit under any of the first three clauses of Rule 60(b).”
• dismissal without prejudice under Rule 41(a)(2) is a final judgment for purposes of appeal

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).