876 F. Supp. 2d 549 - Dean v. Specialized Security Response’s Empirical Analysis

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1. “A motion for reconsideration is not properly grounded in a request for a district court to rethink a decision it has already rightly or wrongly made. Williams v. Pittsburgh, 32 F.Supp.2d 236, 238 (W.D.Pa.1998). Litigants are cautioned to “evaluate whether what may seem to be a clear error of law is in fact simply a point of disagreement between the Court and the litigant.” Waye v. First Citizen’s Nat'l Bank, 846 F.Supp. 310 , 314 n. 3 (M.D.Pa.1994) (internal quotation omitted). Plaintiff did not present the court with any intervening change in the law, with new evidence, or with any clear error or manifest injustice resulting from the court’s earlier decision. He raises the same legal issues in his motion for a new trial, which he raised at the summary judgment stage of this litigation, and which the court already addressed. A motion to reconsider is not a vehicle for unending dialogue between litigants and the court on matters already determined.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Borrell v. Bloomsburg University

2. “may, on motion, grant a new trial on all or some of the issues-and to any party- ... after a jury trial, for any reason for which a new trial has heretofore been granted in an action at law in federal court.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Acosta v. Fairmount Foundry, Inc.

3. “In other words, no injustice will be found in nonprejudicial trial errors.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Acosta v. Fairmount Foundry, Inc.