Opinion

Seay v. Oklahoma Board of Dentistry

Court
District Court, W.D. Oklahoma
Filed
Sep 10, 2020
Cited by
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More cited than 28.6%

The opinion

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF OKLAHOMA

(1) JOSEPH P. SEAY, D.D.S., MS, )

(2) LOIS JACOBS, D.D.S., MS, )

)

Plaintiffs, )

v. ) Case No. CIV-17-682 D

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(1) OKLAHOMA BOARD OF DENTISTRY, )

et. al., )

)

Defendants. )

ORDER

Before the Court is Plaintiffs’ Motion to Reconsider the April 21, 2020 Order on

Statute of Limitations and Brief in Support [Doc. No. 69], which seeks relief from the

Court’s Order granting partial summary judgment to Defendants [Doc. No. 67].1

Defendants have filed a response [Doc. No. 77], and the matter is fully briefed and at issue.

Plaintiffs ask the Court to revisit its April 21, 2020 Order [Doc. No. 67], which

granted in part Defendants’ Motion for Summary Judgment [Doc. No 61]. The standard for

reconsideration is clear: “Grounds warranting a motion to reconsider include (1) an

intervening change in the controlling law, (2) new evidence previously unavailable, and

(3) the need to correct clear error or prevent manifest injustice.” Servants of Paraclete v.

Does, 204 F.3d 1005, 1012 (10th Cir. 2000) (citing Brumark Corp. v. Samson Resources

Corp., 57 F.3d 941, 948 (10th Cir. 1995)). “[A] motion for reconsideration is appropriate

where the court has misapprehended the facts, a party's position, or the controlling law. It

1 The Court will address the supplemental briefing [Doc. Nos. 68, 74, 75] on the

outstanding restraint of trade issue in a separate order.

is not appropriate to revisit issues already addressed or advance arguments that could have

been raised in prior briefing.” Servants of Paraclete, 204 F.3d at 1012; see United States

v. Christy, 739 F.3d 534, 539 (10th Cir. 2014).

The instant Motion does not provide any grounds to reconsider the April 21, 2020

Order. Plaintiffs assert the Court should reconsider its rulings in light of the 2015, 2018,

and 2019 amendments to the Oklahoma Dental Act (“ODA”). Plaintiffs, however, have

addressed these amendments in briefs submitted to the Court. Plaintiffs concede this point

in the instant Motion. See [Doc. No. 69] at 2, 11, 12. The instant Motion does not include

an intervening change in the law, new evidence that was previously unavailable, or the

need to correct clear error or manifest injustice. Instead, it merely reargues already decided

points. Thus, the instant Motion for reconsideration [Doc. No. 69] is DENIED.

IT IS SO ORDERED this 10" day of September, 2020.

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TIMOTHY D. DeGIUSTI

Chief United States District Judge

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