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In the
United States Court of Appeals
For the Eleventh Circuit
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No. 22-11943
Non-Argument Calendar
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MICHAEL DEWAYNE ARRINGTON,
Plaintiff-Appellant,
versus
MIAMI DADE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT,
ALBERTO CARVALHO,
individually and in his official capacity as
Superintendent and/or Director of Miami-Dade
County Public Schools District,
GEORGE T. BAKER AVIATION SCHOOL,
SEAN GALLAGAN,
individually and in his official capacity as
Principal of George T. Baker Aviation School,
GEORGE W. SANDS,
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individually and in his official capacity as
Assistant Principal, George T. Baker
Aviation School,
Defendants-Appellees.
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Appeal from the United States District Court
for the Southern District of Florida
D.C. Docket No. 1:15-cv-24114-JEM
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Before ROSENBAUM, GRANT, and ANDERSON, Circuit Judges.
PER CURIAM:
Michael Arrington appeals the district court’s denial of his
motion under Rule 60(b), Fed. R. Civ. P., seeking relief from prior
adverse decisions of this Court. After careful review, we affirm.
The relevant background is as follows. Arrington filed a fed-
eral civil-rights lawsuit alleging that he was discriminated against
based on his race while enrolled in an aviation program at a public
technical college in Florida. The district court dismissed the case
for failure to state a plausible claim of race discrimination. We af-
firmed the district court on appeal and denied Arrington’s motion
to recall the mandate. See Arrington v. Miami Dade Cnty. Pub.
Sch. Dist. (“Arrington I”), 835 F. App’x 418 (11th Cir. 2020).
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Arrington returned to the district court and moved for relief
under Rule 60(b), asserting that Arrington I contained “blatant mis-
takes.” The district court denied the motion, and Arrington ap-
pealed. Again, we affirmed, holding that Arrington I was law of
the case and that no exception applied. Arrington v. Miami Dade
Cnty. Pub. Sch. Dist. (“Arrington II”), No. 21-11569, 2021 WL
4940820 (11th Cir. Oct. 22, 2021).
Undeterred, Arrington filed another Rule 60(b) motion as-
serting that Arrington I was wrongly decided. The district court
denied the motion as barred by law of case, reasoning that the is-
sues Arrington raised were expressly decided against him in Arring-
ton I and Arrington II. That order is the subject of this appeal.
We review de novo the district court’s application of the
law-of-the-case doctrine. Alphamed, Inc. v. B. Braun Med., Inc.,
367 F.3d 1280, 1285 (11th Cir. 2004). The law-of-the-case doctrine
bars relitigation of issues that were decided either explicitly or by
necessary implication in a prior appeal. Oladeinde v. City of Bir-
mingham, 230 F.3d 1275, 1288 (11th Cir. 2000). Nevertheless, we
may reconsider an issue if, among other things, the “prior decision
was clearly erroneous and would result in a manifest injustice.” Id.
Here, the district court properly concluded that law of the
case barred Arrington’s second Rule 60(b) motion. Arrington
maintains that Arrington I is not binding because it was clearly er-
roneous and will work manifest injustice. But he does not identify
any specific factual or legal error in that prior decision. And having
reviewed his allegations for a third time, we are not persuaded that
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the prior decision was clearly erroneous. Moreover, we already
held in Arrington II that Arrington I is law of the case and that it
barred a Rule 60(b) motion seeking reconsideration on the same
grounds as the present motion. Our ruling in Arrington II is itself
law of the case and provides yet another basis for denial of Arring-
ton’s most recent motion. See Oladeinde, 230 F.3d at 1288.
For these reasons, we affirm.
AFFIRMED.