Grace v. Bank Leumi Trust Company Of New York

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that “[i]t is settled law that a corporation may not appear in a lawsuit against it except through an attorney”
• explaining that a corporation “may appear in the federal courts only through licensed counsel,” and may not appear pro se
• explaining that failure to secure counsel for a corporate entity may result in a default
• noting that a default judgment may be entered against a corporation that fails to appear through counsel
• noting that extraordinary circumstances “typically do not exist where the applicant fails to move for relief promptly”
• noting that where such an entity “repeatedly fails to appear by counsel, a default judgment may be entered against it” (internal quotation marks omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).