Opinion
CIVIL ACTION NO. 1:10-CV-202
02-09-2012
FLORENCE CAESAR, Plaintiff v. PENNSYLVANIA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS, et al., Defendants
(Judge Conner)
ORDER
AND NOW, this 9th day of February, 2012, upon consideration of correspondence (Doc. 85) filed by plaintiff Florence Caesar ("Caesar"), wherein Caesar appeals the Report and Recommendation (Doc. 74) of the United States Magistrate Judge, the Honorable J. Andrew Smyser, and the court construing the correspondence as a motion for reconsideration of the undersigned's order (Doc. 83) dated January 19, 2012, wherein the court adopted the Report's recommendation to deny Caesar's motion (Doc. 63) for preliminary injunction, and the court noting that the purpose of a motion for reconsideration is to present newly discovered evidence or to correct manifest errors of law or fact, see Harsco Corp. v. Zlotnicki, 779 F.2d 906, 909 (3d Cir. 1985), that the court possesses inherent power to reconsider its orders "when it is consonant with justice to do so," United States v. Jerry, 487 F.2d 600, 605 (3d Cir. 1973); Alea N. Am. Ins. Co. v. Salem Masonry Co. 301 F. App'x 119, 121 (3d Cir. 2008), and that a party may not invoke a motion for reconsideration as a means to relitigate matters of disagreement with the court, see Abu-Jamal v. Horn, No. Civ. A. 99-5089, 2001 WL 1609761, at *9 (E.D. Pa. Dec. 18, 2001), and the court concluding that Caesar has neither presented newly discovered evidence nor demonstrated that the January 19, 2012, order (Doc. 83) contains a manifest error of law or fact, it is hereby ORDERED that the motion (Doc. 85) for reconsideration is DENIED.
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CHRISTOPHER C. CONNER
United States District Judge