Court Opinion

ID: 9470197
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 02:59:10.476005+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:41:46.671368
License: Public Domain

NATHANIEL R. JONES, Circuit Judge,
concurring.
I concur in the judgment reached. However, I think it important to write separately to emphasize my view that this holding is limited to the unique set of facts present here.
I wish to also emphasize the following. I agree that the plaintiff has been through *277the “rigamarole” in the instant case, but to not allow the district judge to correct his error could result in a pure windfall to plaintiff without a showing of a detrimental reliance on her part. Further, I believe as a policy matter that a judge should have discretion to correct his or her own legal error. Finally, the rationale of the opinion would, I fear, be tantamount to justifying a sixty-day time limitation on Rule 60(b) motions when the statute clearly states one year.