Paul Sartin v. McNair Law Firm PA

Affirmed by published opinion. Judge NIEMEYER wrote the opinion, in which Judge GREGORY and Judge FLOYD joined.

NIEMEYER, Circuit Judge:

In a complex procedural context, we are called to construe the proper scope of Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 60(a), which authorizes district courts to correct mistakes found in judgments and orders.

Employing that Rule, the South Carolina District Court revisited two sanctions orders it had entered against “the Plaintiffs” in a private civil action more than a year earlier, indicating that it had originally intended the sanctions to apply to the plaintiffs’…