Joan Cody v. Keith Mello and Thomas Murray

How courts have described this case

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• noting that Defendant Miller appears to have left DOCCS in 2022 based on publicly available information
• noting that a default judgment is “the most severe sanction which the court may apply”
• noting that the Court has “stated time and again that a trial court’s desire to move its calendar should not overcome its duty to do justice”
• noting that the Court has “stated time and again that a trial court’s desire to move its calendar should not overcome its duty to do justice”
• granting summary judgment where plaintiff alleged items were thrown on ground and did not demonstrate defendants wantonly damaged or destroyed property
• reversing order granting motion for default judgment due to “defendants’ failure to timely appear”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).