Grand v. Hope

How courts have described this case

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

• reversing award of damages following default judgment because “[i]mplicit in [the plaintiff’s] lawsuit [was] an unsupported legal theory or conclusion of law” and the plaintiff was “trying to obtain damages for which there is no basis in law”
• “when an award of actual damages fails, the award of punitive damages must likewise fail”
• default does not preclude a defendant from showing under the facts admitted that no claim existed
• “[U]nder Georgia law, unless a judgment is void on its face, it may not be attacked collaterally. ... This is true regardless of any purported irregularity or error in the judgment.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).