DAYS INNS WORLDWIDE, INC. v. PATEL

No. 05-3010.

445 F.3d 899 (2006)

DAYS INNS WORLDWIDE, INC., Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Bharat PATEL, Defendant-Appellant, Alibaba Charchor, Inc. and Mukesh Patel, Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided and Filed: April 26, 2006.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: Jeremy Gilman, Benesch, Friedlander, Coplan & Aronoff, Cleveland, Ohio, for Appellant. Rose Marie Fiore, Hahn, Loeser & Parks, Cleveland, Ohio, for Appellee. ON BRIEF: Jeremy Gilman, Benesch, Friedlander, Coplan & Aronoff, Cleveland, Ohio, for Appellant. Rose Marie Fiore, Steven A. Goldfarb, Hahn, Loeser & Parks, Cleveland, Ohio, for Appellee.

Before: KENNEDY, COOK, and GRIFFIN, Circuit Judges.


GRIFFIN, Circuit Judge.

Defendant-appellant Bharat Patel ("appellant") appeals an order of the district court denying his motion for relief from judgment on the basis that the motion was not filed within a "reasonable time" as required by FED. R. CIV. P. 60(b)(4). We affirm and hold that because appellant waited over eleven months after the district court acquired jurisdiction over him to file his motion for relief from judgment, the district court did not abuse its...

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