Anderson v. Swart

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• holding that when a party defaults, an award of fees and costs is an appropriate lesser sanction
• allowing case to proceed on the merits despite ten-month delay before motion to set aside default
• allowing case to proceed on the merits even though the moving party waited ten months after court entered default before moving to set aside default
• “The attorney, for example, could have been charged with all costs and expenses attendant to the delay, including attorneys’ fees, or even held in contempt of court.”
• “[The] fact is that in National Hockey League[ v. Metropolitan Hockey Club, Inc.], as well as in Rabb[ v. Amatex Corporation, 769 F.2d 996 (4th Cir. 1985
• setting aside default judgment entered against blameless party

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).