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· 3/5/1987

Stuyvesant Dredging Co. v. United States

Citations

  • 11 Cl. Ct. 853
  • 33 Cont. Cas. Fed. 75,152
  • 1987 U.S. Claims LEXIS 37

How courts have described this case

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  • affirming district court’s finding that plaintiff’s erroneous interpretation of a statute did not constitute mistake, inadvertence, surprise, or excusable neglect under Rule 60(b)
  • “When a party makes a deliberate, strategic choice to settle, she cannot be relieved of such a choice merely because her assessment of the consequences was incorrect.”
  • under Rule 60(b)(6), a defendant’s mere “failure to properly estimate the loss or gain from entering a settlement agreement is not an extraordinary circumstance that justifies relief” and denying Rule 60(b

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Judges: III, Tidwell

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