Patel v. Nations Renovations, LLC (Per Curiam)
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The Supreme Court conditionally granted mandamus relief directing the district court to withdraw its order modifying its underlying judgment, holding that the district court's plenary power had expired before it undertook to revise its final judgment, and therefore the order modifying the judgment was void.
The parties in this case, which arose from a construction project dispute, resolved their dispute via arbitration. The arbitrator issued a final arbitration award, and the district court entered a judgment confirming the award. More than one year later, one parties moved to modify the judgment to clarify that it was not a "final judgment" but merely interlocutory. The district court modified the judgment to reflect that it was interlocutory but sua sponte certified the question for interlocutory appeal. The Supreme Court held that the judgment rendered was clearly and unequivocally final.
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