Legal Opinion
Leland G. Neuberg and Joel G. Neuberg v. Michael Reese Hospital Foundation
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided July 29, 1997No. 96-2383PublishedCited by 32 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DIANE P. WOOD, Circuit Judge.
This is an appeal from the district court’s denial of a motion filed under Rule 60(b)(6) that sought to reopen a case that had been settled some 21 months earlier. The lawsuit itself had been a medical malpractice action, filed in 1975, that alleged negligence in connection with a 1947 use of radiation therapy to treat plaintiffs’ tonsillitis. The district court found that Leland and Joel Neuberg, the plaintiffs, had not presented the kind of extraordinary reason to disturb the final judgment it had entered in reliance on the settlement. We agree and affirm the…
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