Brockton Savings Bank v. Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co., First United Fund, Ltd.

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• holding that allegations of fact in the complaint must be taken as true after entry of a default
• affirming district court’s entry of default judgment under court’s inherent powers in response to defendant’s abusive litigation practices
• placing weight on the “centrality of the evidence” object of the discovery dispute, and affirming district court’s entry of de fault judgment
• basing affirmance of default sanction in part on district court’s “avowed purpose to offer ... [defendant] the opportunity to explain and justify the lateness of the revelation ...”
• “A federal district court must be able ‘to protect the administration of justice by levying sanctions in response to abusive litigation practices.’”
• damages were a sum certain when there was “no question as to the precise amount... of total losses” on an unpaid certificate of deposit

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).