Guenther

MEMORANDUM *

We affirm the district court’s clarified judgment, reverse the court’s jurisdictional ruling on the motion to vacate, and deny the motion.

I. The Clarified Judgment

Rule 60(a) authorizes a district court to correct a judgment if doing so reflects the court’s original intentions. 1 In determining what the court originally intended, we may look to the circumstances surrounding the original judgment 2 and also to the court’s subsequent statements of its original intent, 3 providing the record gives no reason to doubt such statements.

The jury found for the Government on all the questions on the special verdict form. The original judgment acknowledged that the jury had found for the Government, and the district court had stated that it would enter judgment on that verdict. In denying the motion to amend, the court again stated that the jury had found for the Government and referred to the money “to which the United States was entitled.” The court relied on its authority to make corrections to reflect its “actual intentions” when the court clarified the original judgment. Similarly, the court expressly rejected the notion that the original judgment dismissed the…