Legal Opinion
Mary Hopper v. Euclid Manor Nursing Home, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided February 2, 1989No. 87-3938PublishedCited by 250 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KENNEDY, Circuit Judge.
In an effort to foreclose defendant-appellant’s (Euclid Manor Nursing Home, Inc.) entitlement to costs under Rule 68, Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, the District Court modified its earlier judgment awarding nominal damages to plaintiff-appellee Mary Hopper in this employment discrimination case. Defendant appeals, asserting that the District Court abused any discretion it might have under Rule 60(b)(6) in modifying the judgment to circumvent the mandatory application of Rule 68. We agree that it was an abuse of discretion to modify the judgment for this purpose.…
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