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2 canonical passages across 2 cases, quoted by 10 opinions in total. These passages cluster together because the same opinions keep quoting them side by side — they state parts of one doctrine. The anchor passage is from Good Luck Nursing Home, Inc. D/B/A Magnolia Gardens Nursing Home v. Patricia R. Harris, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare.

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1 Good Luck Nursing Home, Inc. D/B/A Magnolia Gardens Nursing Home v. Patricia R. Harris, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare Anchor
cadc · 1980
green “rule 60(b) cannot, therefore, be employed simply to rescue a litigant from strategic choices that later turn out to be improvident.” 6
2 Hall v. Central Intelligence Agency
cadc · 2006
green “allows district courts to correct only limited types of substantive errors.” 4

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