John T. Fackelman v. Griffin B. Bell, Attorney General

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• noting that a Rule 60 motion’s “main application is to those cases in which the true merits of a case might never be considered because of technical error”
• reopening under 60(b)(1) “is to permit the district court to reconsider and correct its own errors, particularly if they are of an obvious nature amounting to little more than clerical errors”
• “Thus, to overturn the district court’s denial of this 60(b) motion, it is not enough that a grant of the motion might have been permissible or warranted; rather, the decision to deny the motion must have been sufficiently unwarranted as to amount to an abuse of discretion.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).