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=====Fraud on the court=====<!-- [[Fraud on the court]] redirects to here --> {{Further|Judicial misconduct}} When an [[officer of the court]] is found to have fraudulently presented facts to impair the court's impartial performance of its legal task, the act (known as ''fraud upon the court'') is not subject to a statute of limitation: "This concept that the inherent power of federal courts to vacate a fraudulently obtained judgment—even years after the judgment was entered—has long been recognized by the Supreme Court."<ref name=Bressman>{{Cite web |url=https://cite.case.law/f3d/874/142/12270065/#p149 |title=In re Bressman, 874 F.3d 142 |page=482 |date=October 18, 2017 |work=U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit |publisher=Harvard Law School}}</ref> Fraud on the court can be done many ways and in any court. One of which can be "where the court or a member is corrupted or influenced or influence is attempted or where the judge has not performed his judicial function — thus where the impartial functions of the court have been directly corrupted."<ref name=Bulloch>{{Cite web |url=https://cite.case.law/f2d/763/1115/373266/#p1121 |title=Bulloch v. United States, 763 F.2d 1115 |page=1121 |date=May 22, 1985 |work=U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit |publisher=Harvard Law School}}</ref> Officer of the court includes any [[judge]], [[law clerk]], [[court clerk]], [[lawyer]], investigator, [[probation officer]], [[referee]], [[legal guardian]], parenting-time expeditor, mediator, evaluator, administrator, special appointee, and/or anyone else whose influence is part of the judicial mechanism.<ref name=DOJ>{{cite web |title=Deprivation Of Rights Under Color Of Law |url=https://www.justice.gov/crt/deprivation-rights-under-color-law |date=May 31, 2021 |publisher=U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) |quote=Persons acting under color of law within the meaning of this statute include police officers, prisons guards and other law enforcement officials, as well as judges, care providers in public health facilities, and others who are acting as public officials.}}</ref><ref name=FBI>{{Cite web |url=https://www.fbi.gov/investigate/civil-rights/federal-civil-rights-statutes |title=Federal Civil Rights Statutes |publisher=Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)}}</ref>
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