Good v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance

How courts have described this case

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• plaintiffs who prevail by default are “not automatically entitled to the damages they originally demanded”
• “If it is necessary to determine the amount of damages or to establish the truth of any averment by evidence, the court may conduct a hearing.”
• “Defaults are treated as admissions of the facts alleged, but a plaintiff may still be required to prove that he or she is entitled to the damages sought.”
• “For the reasons that follow, we do not believe [appellant] has shown an abuse of discretion in the District Court’s decision to award only nominal damages in the absence of a hearing.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).