Vito Matarese v. Eugene Lefevre, Superintendent, Clinton Correctional Facility, and Robert Abrams, Attorney General, State of New York

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• holding that, while relief is appropriate in “extraordinary circumstances” or “where the judgment may work an extreme and undue hardship,” Rule 60(b)(6) “may not be used as a substitute for appeal”
• holding habeas proceedings have no “conventional notions of finality”
• denying relief where subsequent Supreme Court decisions indicated that change in law had not, in fact, occurred
• reviewing Rule 60(b)(6) decisions for abuse of discretion only
• reviewing Rule 60(b)(6) decisions for abuse of discretion only

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