Legal Opinion
Mattox v. Life Insurance Co. of North America ("Lina")
District Court, N.D. Georgia
Decided July 29, 2008No. Civil Action File 1:06-cv-2090-TCBPublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER
TIMOTHY C. BATTEN, SR., District Judge.
This matter is before the Court on Defendant LINA’s motion for reconsideration of the Court’s March 13, 2008 Order [79].
The Federal Rules of Civil Procedure do not specifically authorize motions for reconsideration. Local Rule 7.2 provides that motions for reconsideration are not to be filed “as a matter of routine practice,” but only when “absolutely necessary.” L.R. 7.2E, N.D. Ga. A party may move for reconsideration only when at least one of the following three elements exists: (1) the discovery of new evidence; (2) an intervening development or…
2Cases cited11 opinions
- Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. v. BruchSupreme Court of the United States · 1989
- Metropolitan Life Insurance v. GlennSupreme Court of the United States · 2008
- Abatie v. Alta Health & Life Ins. Co.Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 2006
- Fred Brown v. Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Alabama, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1990
- Preserve Endangered Areas of Cobb's History, Inc. v. United States Army Corps of EngineersDistrict Court, N.D. Georgia · 1995
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3Cited by3 opinions
- Allen v. Life Insurance Co. of North AmericaDistrict Court, N.D. Georgia · 2009
- Harvey v. Standard InsuranceDistrict Court, N.D. Alabama · 2011
- Davis v. Reliastar Life InsuranceDistrict Court, N.D. Georgia · 2009