Tyson v. Swenson

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• noting that to prevail on a fraud upon the court claim, a party must show “by clear and convincing evidence that there was fraud on the court, and all doubts must be resolved in favor of the finality of the judgment”
• unless party shows fraud on the court through clear and convincing evidence, judgment should not be disturbed
• “Fraud on the court. . . is fraud which is directed to the judicial machinery itself and is not fraud between the parties or fraudulent documents, false statements or petjuty.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).