Cortes
Cortes v. MTC Financial, Inc.
Opinion
trial_court Opinion
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 9 FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 11 MARTIN J. CORTES-SALCEDO, No. 1:18-cv-01269-DAD-BAM 12 Plaintiff, 13 v. ORDER DENYING PLAINTIFF’S MOTION
TO REOPEN CASE
14 MTC FINANCIAL INC., d/b/a TRUSTEE CORPS, et al., (Doc. No. 26) 15 Defendants. 16 17 Before the court is plaintiff’s motion to reopen this closed action filed pursuant to Federal 18 Rule of Civil Procedure 60(b) on October 7, 2019.1 (Doc. No. 26.) The court dismissed this case 19 on April 16, 2019 due to plaintiff’s failure to prosecute this action and failure to obey a court 20 order. (Doc. No. 24.) Judgment was entered back on April 16, 2019. (Doc. No. 25.) 21 Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 60(b) governs the reconsideration of final orders of the 22 district court. Rule 60(b) permits a district court to relieve a party from a final order or judgment 23 on grounds of: “(1) mistake, inadvertence, surprise, or excusable neglect; (2) newly discovered 24 evidence . . .; (3) fraud . . . of an adverse party; (4) the judgment is void; (5)…