VICKI MILES-LaGRANGE, District Judge.
Before the Court is plaintiff's Rule 59 and Rule 60 Motion to Vacate Its April 6, 2012 Order [Dkt. 221] Granting Summary Judgment to Cudd and Enter Order Denying Cudd's Motion for Summary Judgment, filed May 3, 2012. On May 17, 2012, defendant Cudd Pressure Control, Inc. ("Cudd") filed its response. On May 24, 2012, plaintiff filed her reply, and on June 8, 2012, plaintiff filed her Supplemental Brief to Her Rule 59 and 60 Motion. Based upon the parties' submissions, the Court makes its determination.
Pursuant to Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 59 and 60, plaintiff moves this Court to reconsider its decision to grant Cudd's motion for summary judgment. "Grounds warranting a motion to reconsider include (1) an intervening change in the controlling law, (2) new evidence previously unavailable, and (3) the need to correct error or prevent manifest injustice." Servants of the Paraclete v. John Does I-XVI, 204 F.3d 1005, 1012 (10th Cir. 2000). A motion to reconsider is appropriate "where the court has misapprehended the facts, a party's position, or the controlling law" but is not appropriate "to revisit issues already addressed or advance arguments that could have been raised in prior briefing." Id.
Plaintiff asserts that this Court's ruling that plaintiff's claim pursuant to Parret v. UNNICO Service Company, 127 P.2d 572 (Okla. 2005), is barred by the election of remedies doctrine is a manifest error of law and clearly a mistake of law. Specifically, plaintiff contends that the election of remedies doctrine does not apply to Parret intentional tort claims and that Parret itself clearly permits a plaintiff to bring both a district court claim for intentional tort and prosecute to finality a death claim under the Workers' Compensation Act. Plaintiff further asserts that the ends of justice will only be served by the Court reviewing the legal issue again, vacating its order granting summary judgment to Cudd, entering an order denying Cudd's motion for summary judgment, and re-setting this case on the Court's jury trial docket.
Having carefully reviewed the parties' submissions, as well as the applicable case law cited therein, the Court finds no need to vacate its order granting Cudd's motion for summary judgment. Specifically, the Court finds that it did not misapprehend the controlling law and that its ruling is not a manifest error of law. The Court finds that the Oklahoma Supreme Court's ruling in Parret was limited to the issue of the evidentiary burden imposed on a plaintiff asserting an intentional tort claim and did not address either the res judicata effect of a fully-adjudicated workers' compensation case or whether the election of remedies doctrine applies to Parret cases. The Court further finds that it properly concluded that the issue of whether the election of remedies doctrine applies to a Parret claim remains an issue of first impression in Oklahoma. Additionally, the Court would note that the decisions from the United States District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma cited by plaintiff are not binding precedent upon this Court and finds that this Court's ruling is not a manifest error of law because it reaches a different resolution.
Accordingly, the Court DENIES plaintiff's Rule 59 and Rule 60 Motion to Vacate Its April 6, 2012 Order [Dkt. 221] Granting Summary Judgment to Cudd and Enter Order Denying Cudd's Motion for Summary Judgment [docket no. 228].