Gencorp, Inc. v. Olin Corporation

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “[A] Rule 60(b)(6) motion is not a substitute for an appeal and, it follows, may not be invoked to resurrect a waived argument.”
• “[S]ubsection 6 … applies only in exceptional or extraordinary circumstances which are not addressed by the first five numbered clauses of the Rule.” (cleaned up)
• The “civil action” requirement is not jurisdictional because there is “no indication that Congress perceived this requirement as jurisdictional in nature.”
• “A Rule 60(b) motion is neither a substitute for, nor a supplement to, an appeal”; “[f]or this reason, arguments that were, or should have been, presented on appeal are generally unreviewable on a Rule 60(b)(6) motion.”
• discussing the intervening-change-in-law exception in the context of Rule 60(b)(6)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).