Snyder v. Allamakee County

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a pending motion to set aside a judgment does “not affect the finality of that judgment”
• holding that the district court “had no power or authority to address the merits” of a motion to reconsider “filed well beyond the” then-applicable time limits and so “its order granting the motion was void and had no effect”
• holding that a default judgment is a final judgment
• holding that a default judgment is a final judgment
• finality of default judgment put district court’s power to proceed further at an end, subject to appropriate and timely-filed postjudgment motion
• “If a judgment is final, not only is a right of appeal created, but, absent timely post-judgment motions, district court has no power or authority to return the parties to their original positions.” (citations omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).