Hupp v. Accessory Distributors, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “an application under Rule 55(c), Hawaii Rules of Civil Procedure to set aside entry of default is addressed to the sound discretion of the court”
• holding that the court properly refused to set aside a default when defendant's insurer failed to file an answer for nine months based on the insurer's understanding that it had an \open extension of time\ (quotation marks omitted)
• holding that the court properly refused to set aside a default when defendant’s insurer failed to file an answer for nine months based on the insurer’s understanding that it had an “open extension of time” (quotation marks omitted)
• holding that the circuit court properly refused to set aside default when defendant's insurer failed to file an answer for nine months without seeking approval of the court, based on insurer's understanding that it had an \`open' extension of time from [plaintiff's] attorneys\
• holding that the circuit court properly refused to set aside default when defendant’s insurer failed to file an answer for nine months without seeking approval of the court, based on insurer’s understanding that it had an “ ‘open’ extension of time from [plaintiffs] attorneys”
• “trial courts must be given leeway in their discretion to require proof of liability in the support of a default judgment”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).