Patkins v. Knipp

Filing 22

ORDER signed by Judge John A. Mendez on 2/26/2015 DENYING petitioner's 19 Motion for Reconsideration. (Marciel, M)

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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 9 EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 11 DAVID C. PATKINS, 12 13 14 15 No. 2:12-cv-1718-JAM-CMK-P Petitioner, v. ORDER W. KNIPP, Respondent. 16 17 Petitioner, a state prisoner proceeding pro se, brings this petition for a writ of 18 habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. Pending before the court is petitioner’s motion for 19 reconsideration (Docs. 19, 21). 20 Petitioner is requesting the court reconsider its final order and judgment granting 21 respondent’s motion to dismiss the petition and declining to issue a certificate of appealability. 22 Final judgment was entered on March 17, 2014. Petition signed his motion on April 27, 2014, 23 and the court received and filed it on May 1, 2014. 24 The court may grant reconsideration of a final judgment under Federal Rules of 25 Civil Procedure 59(e) and 60. Generally, a motion for reconsideration of a final judgment is 26 appropriately brought under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 59(e). See Backlund v. Barnhart, 27 778 F.2d 1386, 1388 (9th Cir. 1985) (discussing reconsideration of summary judgment); see also 28 Schroeder v. McDonald, 55 F.3d 454, 458-59 (9th Cir. 1995). The motion must be filed no later 1 1 than twenty-eight (28) days after entry of the judgment. See Fed. R. Civ. P. 59(e). Under Rule 2 59(e), three grounds may justify reconsideration: (1) an intervening change in controlling law; (2) 3 the availability of new evidence; or (3) the need to correct clear error or prevent manifest 4 injustice. See Kern-Tulare Water Dist. v. City of Bakersfield, 634 F. Supp. 656, 665 (E.D. Cal. 5 1986), rev'd in part on other grounds, 828 F.2d 514 (9th Cir. 1987), cert. denied, 486 U.S. 1015 6 (1988); see also 389 Orange Street Partners v. Arnold, 179 F.3d 656, 665 (9th Cir. 1999); accord 7 School Dist. No. 1J v. ACandS, Inc., 5 F.3d 1255, 1263 (9th Cir. 1993). 8 Under Rule 60(a), the court may grant reconsideration of final judgments and any 9 order based on clerical mistakes. Relief under this rule can be granted on the court’s own motion 10 and at any time. See Fed. R. Civ. P. 60(a). However, once an appeal has been filed and 11 docketed, leave of the appellate court is required to correct clerical mistakes while the appeal is 12 pending. See id. 13 Under Rule 60(b), the court may grant reconsideration of a final judgment and any 14 order based on, among other things: (1) mistake, inadvertence, surprise, or excusable neglect; (2) 15 newly discovered evidence which, with reasonable diligence, could not have been discovered 16 within ten days of entry of judgment; and (3) fraud, misrepresentation, or misconduct of an 17 opposing party. A motion for reconsideration on any of these grounds must be brought within a 18 reasonable time and no later than one year of entry of judgment or the order being challenged. 19 See Fed. R. Civ. P. 60(c)(1). 20 Here, petitioner’s motion for reconsideration was filed beyond the 28-days 21 provided in Rule 59(e). However, petitioner’s motion fails to raise any grounds for this court to 22 reconsider its final determination under either Rule 59(e) or Rule 60(b). Other than simply 23 disagreeing with the court’s decision, petitioner provides no specific grounds for this court to find 24 there was clear error, new evidence, an intervening change in controlling law, misconduct, or a 25 mistake. Petitioner raises no new grounds in his motion. Rather, he points the court to the 26 objections he filed in response to the Magistrate Judge’s findings and recommendations. The 27 court previously reviewed his objections, conducted a de novo review of the case, and found the 28 findings and recommendations to be supported by the record and proper analysis. His current 2 1 2 3 motion provides no new grounds for the court to reconsider that determination. Accordingly, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that petitioner’s motion for reconsideration (Docs. 19, 21) is denied. 4 5 6 DATED: February 26, 2015 /s/ John A. Mendez______________________ UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT JUDGE 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 3

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