Case Name: Darwin SCHMIDT, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Michelle EGGERS, Defendant-Appellee
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2005-11-14
Citations: 154 F. App'x 492
Docket Number: No. 05-1203
Parties: Darwin SCHMIDT, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Michelle EGGERS, Defendant-Appellee.
Judges: Before KANNE, EVANS, and SYKES, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 154
Pages: 492–492

Head Matter:
Darwin SCHMIDT, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Michelle EGGERS, Defendant-Appellee.
No. 05-1203.
United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.
Submitted Nov. 10, 2005.
Decided Nov. 14, 2005.
Darwin Schmidt, Fox Lake, WI, pro se.
John J. Glinski, Office of the Attorney-General, Madison, WI, for Defendant-Appellee.
Before KANNE, EVANS, and SYKES, Circuit Judges.
After an examination of the briefs and the record, we have concluded that oral argument is unnecessary. Thus, the appeal is submitted on the briefs and the record. See Fed. R.App. P. 34(a)(2).

Opinion:
ORDER
After a Wisconsin court revoked his parole, Darwin Schmidt sued his parole officer under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, essentially claiming that she engineered the revocation to satisfy a personal vendetta. Schmidt lost at summary judgment, and after two timely but unsuccessful motions for reconsideration, he appealed to this court in January 2004. We dismissed that appeal after Schmidt failed to pay the required fees. In January 2005, nearly a year after our dismissal, Schmidt returned to the district court and filed a third "Motion for Reconsideration." In that motion — which because of its timing was actually a motion to vacate the judgment under Fed.R.Civ.P. 60(b), see Talano v. Northwestern Med. Faculty Found., Inc., 273 F.3d 757, 762 (7th Cir.2001) — Schmidt did nothing more than challenge the grant of summary judgment. The district court denied the motion, and Schmidt now appeals.
The time to appeal the adverse ruling on summary judgment long ago expired, see Fed. RApp. P. 4(a)(1)(A), so the only question before us is whether the district court abused its discretion in denying Schmidt's most recent "Motion for Reconsideration." In that motion Schmidt attacks only the merits of the order granting summary judgment in favor of his parole officer, but that legal question should have been raised in the dismissed appeal and is not a proper ground for relief under Rule 60(b). See Gleash v. Yuswak, 308 F.3d 758, 761 (7th Cir.2002). What Schmidt actually seeks is another chance at appeal, and we have said before that a motion under Rule 60(b) is not a substitute for a timely appeal. See Bell v. Eastman Kodak Co., 214 F.3d 798, 801 (7th Cir.2000); Neuberg v. Michael Reese Hosp. Found., 123 F.3d 951, 955 (7th Cir.1997); Donald v. Cook County Sheriff's Dep't, 95 F.3d 548, 554 (7th Cir.1996).
AFFIRMED.