MBE Rules · Civil Procedure
Rule 60(b) — relief from judgment
FRCP 60(b)
The rule
A court may relieve a party from a final judgment for (1) mistake, inadvertence, surprise, or excusable neglect; (2) newly discovered evidence; (3) fraud, misrepresentation, or misconduct; (4) void judgment; (5) satisfied or no-longer-equitable judgment; or (6) any other reason justifying relief. Motions under (1)-(3) must be brought within one year; others within a reasonable time.
In plain English
The last exit ramp after final judgment. Grounds 1-3 have a hard one-year clock; the void-judgment ground has no time limit but is limited to true jurisdictional defects.
Memory hook
MNF-VSE: Mistake, New evidence, Fraud, Void, Satisfied, Equity.
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