ELLIS

v.

PINKINS, CHIEF DEPUTY WARDEN

Citator

Cited By

• Iraola & CIA, S.A. v. Kimberly-Clark Corp., 325 F.3d 1274 (11th Cir. 2003)
  …We review the District Court’s denial of Iraola’s discovery motions for abuse of discretion. See Burks v. American Cast Iron Pipe Co., 212 F. 3d 1333, 1336 (11th Cir.2000); see also Harris v. Chapman, 97 F. 3d 499, 506 (11th Cir.1996), cert. denied, 520 U.S. 1257, 117 S.Ct. 2422, 138 L.Ed.2d 185 (1997) (“District judges are accorded wide discretion in ruling upon discovery motions, and appellate review is accordingly deferential.”). Rather than viewing each discovery request in isolation, we begin by consi…
• Mobley v. Head, 306 F.3d 1096 (11th Cir. 2002)
  …99 F. 3d 1302 (6th Cir.1996), which had held that “a Rule 60(b) motion is the practical equivalent of a successive habeas corpus petition.” Id. at 1335. The facts of McQueen, in which the Supreme Court declined certiorari review, McQueen v. Parker, 520 U.S. 1257, 117 S.Ct. 2422, 138 L.Ed.2d 185 (1997), were different from those in Abdur’Rahman, however. In McQueen, the petitioner used a Rule 60(b) motion to raise “broad allegations of constitutional violations,” which were “never included in the initial pet…