Dow v. Baird’s Empirical Analysis

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18 federal appellate · 3 state decisions

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1. ““To achieve the obviously desirable end of finality Rule 60(a) limits the power of district courts to give relief from judgments of its own initiative only to correct clerical mistakes and errors arising from oversight or omission upon such notice, if any, as the court may direct. There were no such errors in the original judgment in this case. Other errors in judgments, as for mistake, inadvertence, excusable neglect, newly discovered evidence, fraud and so forth can be corrected only on motion and on such terms as are just. Rule 60(b) Fed.R.Civ.P. Thus the only errors in a judgment which a district court may correct of its own initiative are those sanctioned by Rule 60(a), supra, that is, formal errors arising from clerical mistakes and from oversight or omission. Other errors, such as those enumerated in Rule 60(b) can be corrected only on motion . . . .””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Downing v. O'BRIEN

2. “cavalierly brushed aside as an empty formality,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. United States v. Turner