Hauspie v. Stonington Partners, Inc.

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• discussing “strict conformity with all procedural requirements” governing entry of default judgment
• listing the elements of fraud as: “(1) a false representation, usually one of fact . . .; (2) the defendant’s knowledge or belief that the representation was false, or was made with reckless indifference to the truth; (3
• “The effect of a default in answering, however, is to deem admitted all the well-pleaded facts in the complaint”
• claim for fraud requires “the defendant’s knowledge or belief that the representation was false, or was made with reckless indifference to the truth”
• “The effect of a default in answering [ ] is to deem admitted all the well-pleaded facts in the complaint.”
• “‘[A] default is not treated as an absolute confession by the defendant of his liability and of the plaintiff’s right to recover . . . Although he may not challenge the sufficiency of the evidence . . . .’”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).