Notice: First Circuit Local Rule 36.2(b)6 States Unpublished Opinions May Be Cited Only in Related Cases.vincent F. Zarrilli, Plaintiff, Appellant, v. Capitol Bank & Trust Co., Defendant, Appellee, 993 F.2d 1531 (1st Cir. 1993)

We have reviewed the parties' briefs and the record on appeal. We conclude that there was no abuse of discretion in the district court's denial of appellant's motion, filed pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P. 60(b) (6), which sought to vacate a judgment entered in February 1980. Appellant has given no explanation, much less shown extraordinary circumstances, to excuse his failure to appeal that judgment. "Rule 60(b) (6) may not be used to escape the consequences of the movant's dilatory failure to take a timely appeal." Mitchell v. Hobbs, 951 F.2d 417, 420 (1st Cir. 1991).

And, his explanation for the 11 year delay in presenting his Rule 60(b) (6) motion to the district court that he believed that the district court should have before it the bankruptcy court record, which had been, and still is, lost does not constitute extraordinary circumstances. Appellant learned in September 1981 that the record was lost. If, as appellant claims, this bankruptcy record was important to his district court case, he could have, and should have, filed his Rule 60(b) motion at that time, along with the notice from the Federal Archives and Record Center and appellant's own copies of the bankruptcy record documents which he has had all along. Appellant's waiting until 1991 to do what he could have done ten years earlier does not warrant vacating the underlying judgment.

In any event, we have reviewed the grounds that appellant raises for vacating the 1980 district court judgment and they have no merit.¹ 

Affirmed.