United States v. Mansion House Center Redevelopment Co.

118 F.R.D. 487, 1987 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 12225, 1987 WL 29415
CourtDistrict Court, E.D. Missouri
DecidedDecember 24, 1987
DocketNos. 76-20C-(1), 79-616C(1) to 79-618C(1)
StatusPublished
Cited by7 cases

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United States v. Mansion House Center Redevelopment Co., 118 F.R.D. 487, 1987 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 12225, 1987 WL 29415 (E.D. Mo. 1987).

Opinion

MEMORANDUM

NANGLE, Chief Judge.

Introduction

The Mansion House litigation is now before the Court on plaintiff United States of America’s Motion for Supplemental Order and on defendants Mansion House Center Redevelopment Company, et al.’s Motion to Dismiss Plaintiff’s Motion for Supplemental Order for Lack of Jurisdiction.

[489]*489In 1979, plaintiff filed the three foreclosure cases, Numbers 79-616C(l), 79-617C(1), and 79-618C(l), against defendants. On December 2,1985, pursuant to an Order and a Memorandum issued that day, this Court entered judgment in plaintiffs favor in each of the three foreclosure cases and ordered a foreclosure sale.1 On December 6, 1985, this Court stayed its order of foreclosure pending defendants’ appeal. On July 17, 1986, the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed this Court’s judgment in full. United States v. Mansion House Center Redevelopment Company, 796 F.2d 1039 (8th Cir.1986). On August 18, 1986, the Eighth Circuit denied defendants’ petition for rehearing.

In the Court’s Order of December 2, 1985, the Court ordered the United States Marshal to sell “all of the realty described in” the three Deeds of Trust which were the subject of the three foreclosure cases. On January 16, 1987, plaintiff filed the instant Motion for Supplemental Order seeking, in substance, an order from this Court directing the United States Marshal to sell, convey, and deliver: (1) the respective leasehold interests of defendants Mansion House Center Redevelopment Company, Mansion House Center North Redevelopment Company, and Mansion House Center South Redevelopment Company in the Center Tower, the North Tower, and the South Tower; (2) all furniture, fixtures, equipment, supplies, vehicles, works of art, and all other chattels and personal property located in or attached to or belonging to the Mansion House Center towers; and (3) the interest of defendants Mansion House Center Redevelopment Company, Mansion House Center North Redevelopment Company, and Mansion House Center South Redevelopment Company in Mansion House Center Land Redevelopment Corporation. Because defendants' leasehold interests in the three towers is part of the “realty” described in the three Deeds of Trust, the first element of plaintiff’s requested relief is part of the relief which the Court ordered by ordering the Marshal to sell “all of the realty described in” the three Deeds of Trust. The second element of plaintiff’s requested relief (though possibly implied by the Court’s sale order) is not specifically within the ambit of the Court's sale order. The third element of plaintiff’s requested relief was not within the ambit of and was not contemplated by the Court’s sale order. For the purposes of this memorandum, the Court deems the second and third elements of requested relief to be requests for additional relief.

Defendants oppose plaintiff’s motion. Defendants contend that, as plaintiff did not obtain the additional two elements of relief in the Court’s judgment of December 2, 1985, plaintiff is attempting to alter, amend, modify, and enlarge upon the relief obtained in the December 2, 1985, judgment. Defendants contend that this Court lacks jurisdiction to so alter, amend, modify, or enlarge upon the December 2, 1985, judgment after the Eighth Circuit affirmed that judgment.

Jurisdiction

Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 60(a) provides in pertinent part:

Clerical mistakes in judgments, orders or other parts of the record and errors therein arising from oversight or omission may be corrected by the court at any time of its own initiative or on the motion of any party and after such notice, if any, as the court orders.

Fed.R.Civ.P. 60(a). Rule 60(a) permits the correction of errors in judgments, orders, and other parts of the record arising from oversight and omission. See 11 C. Wright & A. Miller, Federal Practice and Procedure § 2854 at 148 (1973).

In Pattiz v. Schwartz, 386 F.2d 300 (8th Cir.1968), the Eighth Circuit, speaking through then Circuit Judge Blackmun, approved of the district court’s use of Rule 60(a) to effectuate a “correction in the formal record of a gap or error ‘arising from oversight or omission,’ ...” 386 F.2d at [490]*490303. A district court can utilize Rule 60(a) to implement “what was understood, what was intended, what was agreed, and what the court itself had accepted as the resolution of the litigation then pending.” Id. In Pattiz v. Schwartz, “the intent of the parties and, indeed, of the trial court itself, [was] clear.” Id. Thus, the district court’s corrective action “ ‘resulted] simply in the record speaking the truth’.” 386 F.2d at 303 (quoting the district court at 41 F.R.D. 456, 459 (E.D.Mo.1967)). The Eighth Circuit also noted that Rule 60(a) is not confined to mistakes of the clerk, but also includes mistakes of the court. 386 F.2d at 303.

Rule 60(a) is the appropriate procedural vehicle to correct “mistakes [occurring] between the design of a judgment and its implementation;” to correct “the translation of the original meaning to the judgment.” United States v. Griffin, 782 F.2d 1393, 1396 (7th Cir.1986). Rule 60(a) may be used to correct drafting errors, to make the judgment carry put the intent of the court. Charles v. Daley, 799 F.2d 343, 347 (7th Cir.1986). “Rule 60(a) finds application where the record makes apparent that the court intended one thing but by merely clerical mistake did another. Such a mistake must not be one of judgment or even misidentification, but merely of recitation—” Dura-Wood Treating Co., Division of Roy O. Martin Lumber Co. v. Century Forest Industries, Inc., 694 F.2d 112, 114 (5th Cir.1982). Rule 60(a) may be used to correct the failure to memorialize part of a decision. Harcon Barge Co., Inc. v. D & G Boat Rentals, Inc., 784 F.2d 665, 669 (5th Cir.), cert, denied, — U.S.-, 107 S.Ct. 398, 93 L.Ed.2d 351 (1986). “[I]f the intention of the judge to include a particular provision in the judgment was clear, but he neglected to include the provision, [Rule 60(a)] authorizes correction of the judgment.” 11 C. Wright & A. Miller, Federal Practice and Procedure § 2854 at 153. See Whitemere Development Corp. v. Township of Cherry Hill, 786 F.2d 185, 187-188 (3rd Cir.1986). See generally, 13 A.L.R.Fed. 794.

Rule 60(a) may be employed even after the district court’s judgment has been affirmed on appeal. “As long as the appellate court [did] not expressly or implicitly rule[ ] on the issue, the district court [does] not transgress[] any jurisdictional boundaries by amending after an appeal has been taken.” Panama Processes, S.A. v. Cities Service Co.,

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855 F.2d 524 (Eighth Circuit, 1988)

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