United States of America v. Obaei

Filing 43

MEMORANDUM Order: Defendant Obaei's motion for reconsideration 42 is denied. Signed by the Honorable Milton I. Shadur on 7/15/2015:Mailed notice(clw, )

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS
EASTERN DIVISION

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
Plaintiff,
v.
HOSSEIN OBAEI,
Defendant.

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Case No. 13 C 8985
Criminal Case No. 05 CR 254

MEMORANDUM ORDER
Hossein Obaei ("Obaei") has filed a self-prepared Motion for Reconsideration
("Motion") to challenge a portion of this Court's June 16, 2015 memorandum opinion and order
("Opinion") that had given careful consideration to, and had ultimately rejected, all nine of
Obaei's original dozen grounds advanced in his 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion. This time Obaei
focuses on his Ground Four, although he adds a few related contentions as well.
Motions for reconsideration are not referred to as such in the Federal Rules of Civil
Procedure, but they have always held a limited place in federal jurisprudence. Above the Belt,
Inc. v. Mel Bohannan Roofing, Inc., 99 F.R.D. 99, 101 (E.D. Va. 1983), an opinion by the late
District Judge Dortch Warriner often cited by this Court, explains that limited role -- and what
Obaei has essayed here reflects nothing more than an ill-considered continued disagreement with
a portion of this Court's rulings rather than any of the limited purposes so well articulated by the
late Judge Warriner.
Simply put, what this Court said in Opinion at 4-5, and what the government's responsive
memorandum referred to there had spelled out, are left unimpaired by the Motion. Hence any

reconsideration of the Opinion, as sought in Dkt. No. 42, is denied.

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Milton I. Shadur
Senior United States District Judge
Date: July 15, 2015

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