Pacific Insurance Company v. American National Fire Insurance Company, Rail Link, Incorporated

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a judgment may be altered “to correct a clear error of law”
• noting that a Rule 59(e) motion “may not be used to relitigate old matters, or to raise arguments or present evidence that could have been raised prior to entry of judgment.”
• stating that reconsideration “motions may not be used . . . to argue a case under a novel legal theory that the party had the ability to address in the first instance”
• stating that Rule 59(e) motions are not a vehicle to relitigate old matters
• “[P]arties should not use [motions for reconsideration] to ‘raise arguments which could, and should, have been made before judgment issued.’”
• “The Rule 59(e) motion may not be used to relitigate old matters[.]”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).