C.K.S. Engineers, Inc. v. White Mountain Gypsum Company, M.S. Riddle and Eryl A. Cummings

How courts have described this case

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• upholding trial court’s refusal to grant relief from default judgment where it appeared that defaulting party was willful in his refusal to diligently conduct litigation
• emphasizing continuing default as support of the district court’s decision not to reinstate
• stating movant’s two‐month delay before moving to vacate default judgment was not quick action
• stating movant’s two‐month delay before moving to vacate default judgment was not quick action
• affirming district court decision not to vacate default where it concluded that defendants “believed they could ignore this case and throw themselves upon the mercy of the court by contending that their local counsel was incompetent”
• noting motions to vacate default judgments should only be applied liberally in the “exceptional circumstance where the events contributing to the default judgment have not been within the meaningful control of the defaulting party, or its attorney”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).