Hounddog Productions, L.L.C. v. Empire Film Group, Inc.

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• striking corporate defendant’s answer and granting a default judgment against it where it failed to appear through new counsel
• striking corporate defendant's answer and granting a default judgment where the corporate defendant failed to appear through new counsel
• entering default against corporation that failed to retain counsel in defiance of court order
• directing the Clerk to enter a default pursuant to Rule 55(a) where the defendant “has taken no steps” to retain new counsel as required by the court’s order and thus failed to defend the action
• “It is well settled that corporations can only appear in court through an attorney, and may not proceed pro se.”
• “It is well settled that corporations can only appear in court through an attorney, and may not proceed pro se”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).