Dreding v. Toney

Full title: BURNICE TAFT DREDING, JR., Petitioner, v. DEBORAH TONEY, Respondent

Court: United States District Court, S.D. Alabama, Southern Division

Date published: Jun 20, 2011

CIVIL ACTION 10-0525-KD-M (S.D. Ala. Jun. 20, 2011)

Opinion

CIVIL ACTION 10-0525-KD-M.

June 20, 2011

ORDER

KRISTI DuBOSE, Magistrate Judge

This matter is before the Court on Petitioner's "Appeal and Motion to File Second or Successive Petition" (Doc. 36). The Court construes Petitioner's filing as a motion to reconsider, ¹ and because the Petitioner has not articulated grounds meriting reconsideration it is ORDERED that the Petitioner's motion (Doc. 36) is DENIED. DONE and ORDERED.

1 The decision to grant or deny a motion to reconsider is left to the discretion of the trial court. Chapman v. AI Transport, 229 F.3d 1012, 1023-1024 (11^th Cir. 2000) (en banc). "In the interest of finality and conservation of scarce judicial resources, reconsideration of an order is an extraordinary remedy and is employed sparingly." Gougler v. Sirius Products, Inc., 370 F. Supp. 2d 1185, 1189 (S.D. Ala. 2005) (citation omitted).