Slykerman

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 KRATZ AERIAL AG SERVICE, INC., a No. 1:15-cv-01070-MCE-JLT North Dakota Corporation, 12 Plaintiff, ORDER v. 14 JOHN A. SLYKERMAN, individually and dba Agra Fly; et al., Defendants. 17 On July 3, 2019, this action was dismissed without prejudice for failure to comply with the applicable rules and orders of this Court and because both sides had failed to prosecute their claims. ECF No. 82. Presently before the Court is Defendants’ Motion for Reconsideration. ECF No. 86.1 A court should be loathe to revisit its own decisions unless extraordinary circumstances show that its prior decision was clearly erroneous. Christianson v. Colt Indus. Operating Corp., 486 U.S. 800, 817 (1988). This principle is embodied in the law of the case doctrine, under which “a court is generally precluded from reconsidering an issue that has already been decided by the same court, or a higher court in the identical 27 1 Because oral argument would not have been of material…