GREEN v. HAWKINBERRY et al

Filing 54

MEMORANDUM OPINION & ORDER denying Plaintiff's Motion for Reconsideration. Signed by Magistrate Judge Cynthia Reed Eddy on 2/23/2015. (bsc)

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA
MUWSA GREEN,
Plaintiff,
v.
DEBRA A. HAWKINBERRY, et al.,
Defendants.

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Civil Action No. 2: 13-cv-1208
United States Magistrate Judge
Cynthia Reed Eddy

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER
On February 6, 2015, the Court denied Plaintiff’s Motion for Preliminary Injunction.
Presently pending is Plaintiff’s Motion for Reconsideration of the Memorandum Opinion and
Order of February 6, 2015, which denied his request for preliminary injunction (ECF No. 53).
A motion for reconsideration may be brought on three grounds: (1) an intervening change
in controlling law, (2) evidence not previously available, or (3) to correct a clear error of law or
prevent manifest injustice. North River Ins. Co. v. CIGNA Reinsurance Co., 52 F.3d 1194, 1218
(3d Cir.1 995). Reconsideration is an extraordinary remedy which is to be granted “very
sparingly.” Interfaith Community Organization v. Honeywell Intern., Inc., 215 F.Supp.2d 482,
507 (D.N.J.2002).
Plaintiff has not identified any intervening change in controlling law, evidence that has
become available since the February 6, 2015, Memorandum Opinion and Order, or facts that the
Court overlooked in denying his Motion for Preliminary Injunction. Instead, Plaintiff has simply
reraised the same arguments that the Court already fully considered and rejected when it denied
the motion for preliminary injunction.
denied.

Accordingly, the Motion for Reconsideration will be

ORDER OF COURT
AND NOW, this 23rd day of February, 2015,

in accordance with the foregoing

Memorandum Opinion, it is hereby ORDERED, ADJUDGED, AND DECREED that the
Motion for Reconsideration is DENIED.

/s Cynthia Reed Eddy
Cynthia Reed Eddy
United States Magistrate Judge
cc:

MUWSA GREEN
HV-5362
SCI Fayette
Box 9999
LaBelle, PA 15450-0999
(via U.S. First Class Mail)
Sandra A. Kozlowski
Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General
(via ECF electronic notification)

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