John Walker v. Transfrontera CV de SA

PER CURIAM: *

After John Walker’s counsel failed to respond to a magistrate judge’s orders requesting a status update regarding efforts to serve process on the defendant, the district court dismissed without prejudice the underlying complaint for want of prosecution. Five months later—after the statute of limitations had run on Walker’s claim—Walker’s counsel filed a Rule 60(b) motion for relief from the order of dismissal, which the district court denied. Walker then filed a Rule 59(e) motion requesting that the district court reconsider its denial of his Rule 60(b) motion. That motion was…