Holding that a motion for reconsideration "may not be used to raise arguments or present evidence for first time when they could reasonably have been raised earlier in the litigation"
In Kern-Tulare, the Eastern District of California adopted language from the Seventh Circuit regarding when it is appropriate to revisit a denial of summary judgment and integrated this language into its general rule regarding a federal court's inherent power to reconsider a prior ruling.
Concluding that city's refusal to consent to water district's transfer of surplus water to other utilities was "foreseeable within the [statutory] authority of the city to contract for, acquire and hold water rights, to furnish itself and its inhabitants with water, and to sell, lease, exchange, or transfer surplus water"
Holding that certification is proper "only in exceptional cases where a decision of the appeal may avoid protracted and expensive litigation . . . and there is serious doubt as to how [a dispositive question] should be decided"
Holding that a district court properly denied a motion to reconsider in which plaintiff presented no arguments that were not already raised in his original motion