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UNITED STATES v. GRIFFIN

Nos. 85-2208, 85-2244.

782 F.2d 1393 (1986)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee — Cross-Appellant, v. Jack GRIFFIN, et al., Defendants. Appeal of Merrill MOORES, Cross-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided January 31, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Merrill Moores, Moores, Boring & Landwerlen, Indianapolis, Ind., for appellant.

Gerald A. Coraz, Asst. U.S. Atty., Indianapolis, Ind., for plaintiff-appellee cross-appellant.

Before CUDAHY, FLAUM, and EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judges.

EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judge.

The foreclosure of a mortgage has produced a difficult problem in the interpretation of Fed.R.Civ.P. 60(a): whether an error in entering the rate of post-judgment interest into a consent decree is a "clerical mistake" that may be corrected at any time. The blunder in this decree went unnoticed for 20 months, until after the judgment had been assigned to a third party and the property had been sold at auction. Unless this is the sort of...

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