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Facts

• The Plaintiff, Carrington Mortgage Services, LLC, initiated a foreclosure action against the Defendants, Matthew P. Padilla and Patricia M. Padilla, on May 7, 2010. The district court dismissed the case for the third time due to lack of prosecution on February 9, 2016. The Plaintiff subsequently filed a motion to reinstate the case, which the district court denied, and additionally dismissed the complaint with prejudice (para 2).

Procedural History

• District Court of Bernalillo County, February 9, 2016: The case was dismissed for the third time for lack of prosecution.
• District Court of Bernalillo County, May 10, 2016: The court denied Plaintiff's motion to reinstate the case and dismissed the complaint with prejudice.

Parties' Submissions

• Plaintiff: Argued that the district court erred in denying its motion to reinstate the case and in dismissing the case with prejudice.
• Defendants: Requested the district court to deny Plaintiff’s motion to reinstate and to dismiss the case with prejudice, highlighting the case's duration and its previous dismissals for lack of prosecution (para 2).

Legal Issues

• Whether the district court abused its discretion in denying Plaintiff's motion to reinstate the foreclosure case.
• Whether the district court erred in dismissing the foreclosure action with prejudice after it had been dismissed without prejudice for lack of prosecution.

Disposition

• The district court’s denial of Plaintiff’s motion to reinstate is affirmed.
• The district court’s dismissal of the foreclosure action with prejudice is reversed (para 6).

Reasons

• Per J. Miles Hanisee, with concurrence from Linda M. Vanzi, Chief Judge, and Stephen G. French, Judge, the Court of Appeals found that the district court did not abuse its discretion in denying the Plaintiff's motion to reinstate the case, as the Plaintiff did not show good cause for reinstatement. The Court of Appeals proposed to conclude that the district court erred in converting the dismissal without prejudice for lack of prosecution into a dismissal with prejudice. The Plaintiff's arguments were not persuasive as they did not clearly point out errors in fact or law with the notice of proposed disposition. The Defendants' request for dismissal with prejudice was made after the case had already been dismissed without prejudice for lack of prosecution, and they did not provide authority to support their contention that the district court had jurisdiction to enter a dismissal with prejudice after such dismissal without prejudice and denial of Plaintiff’s motion to reinstate. The Court of Appeals was not persuaded by the responses to its notice of proposed disposition and therefore affirmed the denial of the motion to reinstate and reversed the dismissal with prejudice (paras 3-6).