Court Opinion

ID: 9494253
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 15:33:00.005424+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:56:18.256738
License: Public Domain

KING, Chief Judge,
specially concurring:
I concur in the judgment and in all of Judge Benavides’s fine opinion with the exception of Part I, which addresses whether a registering court has the power to alter or amend a rendering court’s judgment through Rule 60(b). I write only to state that I agree with Judge Easter-brook’s treatment of this issue in Board of Trustees, Sheet Metal Workers’ National Pension Fund v. Elite Erectors, Inc., 212 F.3d 1031 (7th Cir.2000). As in Elite Erectors, the central issue in this case is whether the rendering court had jurisdiction over the Defendants to enter the default judgment against them. I concur in *400the judgment in this ease, however, because under either Judge Easterbrook’s analysis or Judge Benavides’s analysis, the result is the same because the registering court is “free to disregard the [rendering court’s] judgment, without formally annulling it under Rule 60(b)(4), if the rendering court lacked jurisdiction.” Id. at 1034.