Casey v. Casey’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. ““On September 30, 2009, the trial court entered a judgment in case no. DR-03-180.02 that, among other things, denied the former husband’s Rule 60(b) motion to set aside the default judgment that had been entered in January 2008; modified the visitation provisions of the parties’ divorce judgment so as to award the former husband supervised visitation with the child during specified school vacations; ordered the former husband to be evaluated by a qualified mental-health professional and to submit to periodic drug testing every 60 days for a specific period; and denied the former husband’s requests for a modification of child support, to claim the child as a dependent for tax purposes, and for current and prospective relief as to transportation costs of visitation. On October 27, 2009, the former husband filed a motion, pursuant to Rules 59(a) and 59(e), Ala. R. Civ. P., seeking either a new trial or that the trial court alter, amend, or vacate the September 30, 2009, judgment; that motion was accompanied by a memorandum of facts and law that, among other things, challenged the trial court’s ruling in the September 30, 2009, judgment as to the Rule 60(b) motion that the former husband had filed in case no. DR-03-180.01. The trial court denied the former husband’s Rule 59 motion on December 30, 2009. “The former husband filed a notice of appeal on January 15, 2010, in case no. DR-03-180.02; in his brief in that appeal, the former husband contended that the trial court had erred”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Casey v. Casey