The district court did not abuse its discretion in denying defendant’s Rule 60(b) motion which claimed that the United States had committed fraud on the court which led to the settlement in which defendant agreed to pay $55 million for the 2007 Moonlight wildfire. Fraud that defendant knew about before it settled couldn’t be a proper basis for its motion. The settlement agreement waived any right to set the settlement aside based on later discovered information. And the later discovered information either didn’t show fraud at all or only filled in details of fraud that defendant suspected before it settled.
Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals (Thomas, C.J.); July 13, 2017; 2017 WL 2979765