United States v. Juan Reyes, Juan A. Acevedo, Claimant-Appellant

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• holding that dismissal for failure to comply with a court order is not an abuse of discretion if the party had the ability to comply but chose not to
• finding that counsel’s disregard of the district court’s “graciousness” in notifying “him that he had missed a filing deadline” to be “contumacious”
• stating that “it is presumed that dismissal is not an abuse of discretion if the party has the ability to comply with a discovery order but does not”
• stating that a Rule 60(b)(1) motion can provide relief from a judgment “when the judge has made a substantive mistake of law or fact in the final judgment or order
• stating that a Rule 60(b)(1) motion can provide relief from a judgment “when the judge has made a substantive mistake of law or fact in the final judgment or order
• holding that Rule 60(b)(1) “is intended to provide relief in only two situations: (1) when a party has made an excusable mistake or an attorney has acted without authority, or (2) when the judge has made a substantive mistake of law or fact in the final judgment or order”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).