AME FINANCIAL CORP. v. Kiritsis

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the statutory use of \may\ denotes discretion \even after\ the moving party has satisfied the threshold requirements for seeking relief
• allowing consideration, when relieving a defendant of a default, of “lack of prejudice to the opposing party,” among other factors
• “[U]se of the word ‘may,’ as opposed to ‘shall’ . . . evidences . . . discretion to grant or refuse the defendant’s motion . . . .”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).