Edward Antoine v. Atlas Turner, Inc., Royal Insurance Company of Canada Canadian General Insurance Company and Federal Insurance Company

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• explaining that “affidavits setting out the amount of damages claimed by each plaintiff” were “not conclusive”
• explaining that “ordinarily” after default judgment “the district court must hold an evidentiary proceeding in which the defendant has the opportunity to contest the amount of damages” (cleaned up)
• stating that a judgment is void under Rule 60(b)(4) only “if the court that rendered it lacked jurisdiction of the subject matter, or of the parties, or if it acted in a manner inconsistent with due process of law”
• “[E]ven if [the defendant] is bound on the issue of liability, it still has the opportunity to respond to the issue of damages.”
• “[E]ven if [the defendant] is bound on the issue of liability, it still has the opportunity to respond to the issue of damages.”
• “Where damages are unliquidated a default admits only defendant’s liability and the amount of damages must be proved.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).