Bensen v. United States’s Empirical Analysis

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12 federal appellate · 2 state decisions

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1. ““It is conclusively settled that a ruling upon a motion to vacate a judgment, made in the same term and the same cause in which the challenged judgment is entered, is not an appealable order. Connor v. Peugh’s Lessee, 18 How. 394, 395 , 15 L.Ed. 432 ; Phillips v. Negley, 117 U.S. 665 , 6 S. Ct. 901 , 29 L.Ed. 1013 ; Hume v. Bowie, 148 U.S. 245, 255 , 13 S.Ct. 582 , 37 L.Ed. 438 ; Stevirmac Oil Co. v. Dittman, 245 U.S. 210, 214 , 38 S.Ct. 116 , 62 L.Ed. 248 ; Smith v. United States, 7 Cir., 52 F.2d 848 , and cases cited; Board of Supervisors v. Knickerbocker Ice Co., 2 Cir., 80 F.2d 248, 250 ; Republic Supply Co. v. Richfield Oil Co., 9 Cir., 74 F.2d 909, 910 , and cases cited. “Whatever hardship or injustice, if any, there may be in the denial of the motion, we have no power to consider in the attempted appeal from the motion to vacate the judgment.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Ray v. Bruce