Court Opinion

ID: 9482786
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 09:00:27.176542+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:49:12.225798
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KENNEDY, Circuit Judge,
concurring.
I concur in the result reached by the panel. This Court reviews a denial of a Fed.R.Civ.P. 60(b) motion under an abuse of discretion standard. Amernational Industries, Inc. v. Action-Tungsram, Inc., 925 F.2d 970, 975 (6th Cir.), cert. denied, — U.S. -, 111 S.Ct. 2857, 115 L.Ed.2d 1024 (1991). The decision to set aside a judgment is controlled by three factors: 1) whether defendant will be prejudiced; 2) whether plaintiff has a meritorious claim; and 3) whether plaintiff’s culpable conduct led to the dismissal. Id. at 976.
Under this Court’s decisions in Ashbrook v. Block, 917 F.2d 918 (6th Cir.1990) and Lundstrum v. Lyng, 954 F.2d 1142 (6th Cir.1991), plaintiffs in this case cannot demonstrate that they have a meritorious claim. The District Court does not have subject matter jurisdiction over these claims. For this reason, the District Court did not abuse its discretion in denying the Rule 60(b) motion, and it would be futile to send this case back to the District Court to be heard on the merits.