Legal Opinion
Freeman v. City of Fayetteville
District Court, E.D. North Carolina
Decided July 16, 1997No. Civil Action 1000PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
BRITT, District Judge.
This matter is before the court on the motion of defendants pursuant to Rules 60(b)(5) and (6) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure for relief from the judgment entered in this case and on the motion of plaintiffs for an extension of time to develop the factual record. These motions have been fully briefed and are now ripe for ruling. 1
I. BACKGROUND
On 26 August 1974 a consent judgment (“judgment”) was entered in the instant ease by the Honorable Franklin T. Dupree, Jr. The judgment was the result of a civil rights law suit filed by nine black plaintiffs in which they…
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