Legal Opinion

Stevens v. Miller

Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

Decided April 10, 2012No. 19-466PublishedCited by 219 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

WESLEY, Circuit Judge:

Respondents-Appellants (the “State”) appeal from an order of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Kaplan, /.), entered on December 23, 2011, which denied the State’s motion under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 60(b)(6) to vacate the district court’s grant of habeas relief to Petitioner-Appellee Edward Stevens more than a year earlier. The State argues that the district court abused its discretion in denying its Rule 60(b)(6) motion. We find that the State’s motion is nothing more than an attempted end-run around the one-year time…

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