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Nature of Suit: Foreclosure
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UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS 

TENTH CIRCUIT 

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CLARA C. BULLARD, 

Plaintiff-Appellant, 

v. 

HELEN L. NORTHCUTT; PAULE. 

NORTHCUTT and NORTHCUTT, RALEY, 

CLARK & GARDNER, Attorneys, 

Defendants-Appellees. 

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ORDER AND JUDGMENT* 

J,., : 1991 

ROBERT L. H': . -- ~-""·1. 

Clerk 

No. 90-3196 

(D.C. No. 86-1184-R) 

(D. Kansas) 

Before LOGAN, SEYMOUR, and MOORE, Circuit Judges. 

After examining the briefs and appellate record, this panel 

has determined unanimously that oral argument would not materially 

assist the determination of this appeal. See Fed. R. App. P. 

34(a); 10th Cir. R. 34.1.9. The case is therefore ordered submi tted without oral argument. 

Clara C. Bullard brought this action in the district court 

against the defendants alleging various claims involving an 

earlier loss of land plaintiff owned in Arkansas City, Kansas, for 

which loss she considered defendants responsible. The district 

* This order and judgment has no precedential value and shall not 

be c i ted, or used by any court within the Tenth Circuit, e xcept 

for purposes of establ ishing the doctri nes of the law of the case, 

res judicata, or collateral estoppel. 10th Cir. R. 36.3. 

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court originally dismissed for lack of diversity jurisdiction, 

because it found plaintiff and all defendants were residents of 

the state of Oklahoma. The dismissal was affirmed on appeal to 

this court in 1987. See Bullard v. Northcutt, No. 87-1088 (10th 

Cir. Apr. 23, 1987); see also Bullard v. Crow, et al., Nos. 86-

2546, 86-2769, 86-2790, 86-2791, 86-2806, 87-1228, 87-1920, 87-

1977, 87-2153 (10th Cir. Nov. 19, 1987) (treating related issues). 

Thereafter additional pleadings were filed with the district court 

which plaintiff titled "Motion for Writ of Mandamus Petition and a 

Demand for a Grand Jury Investigation Grounds Fraud--Rule 60b.3--

F. R. Cv. P." This was treated as a petition for writ of mandamus 

to reopen under Fed. R. Civ. P. 60(b) and denied. This court 

affirmed the district court's denial in an unpublished order and 

judgment, Bullard v. Northcutt, Nos. 88-2415, 88-2426 (10th Cir. 

Aug. 2, 1989). 

Thereafter plaintiff returned to the district court and filed 

a "Motion to Administer Justice Grounds--Writ of Error-Order 8-12-

88," in which she complained of fraud and conspiracy on the part 

of essentially all of the federal district judges in Kansas and 

various public officials and others, complaining that they 

conspired to deny her justice and an opportunity for a jury trial 

to prove her case of fraud. The district court treated this 

motion as one under Fed. R. Civ. P. 60(b), the only authority 

under which the district court would have any authority to revisit 

the case after its earlier judgment had been affirmed on appeal. 

The instant appeal was from the district court's denial of that 

motion. 

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We have examined the appellant's brief, which is full of 

conclusory statements concerning the injustices done to her in 

this and various other cases which she apparently did not appeal 

or lost on appeal. Apparently she cannot accept the court's 

ruling that she will have to try her claims against defendants in 

state court in Oklahoma because all parties are residents of that 

state. She believes the whole world of officialdom is conspiring 

to deny her justice. We see no basis for overturning the district 

court's denial of what it had to characterize as a Rule 60(b) 

motion. 

AFFIRMED. 

The mandate shall issue forthwith. 

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Entered for the Court 

James K. Logan 

Circuit Judge 

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