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• finding the Secretary of Health Education and Welfare’s failure to file court ordered memorandum in support of its administrative decisions “amounted to a failure under Fed.R.Civ.P. 55(a) to ‘otherwise defend’ the suit”
• default granted against defendant who filed answer to complaint, but failed to comply with court’s order to file memorandum of law
• The Secretary’s failure to file requested memoranda or even explain the failure after months of delay in social security disability benefits cases amounted to a failure to defend the suit within the meaning of the default judgment rule.
• The Secretary’s failure to file requested memoranda or even explain the failure after months of delay in social security disability benefits cases amounted to a failure to defend the suit within the meaning of the default judgment rule.

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).