Malik v. Hannah

How courts have described this case

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

• finding existing record sufficient to grant damages for pain and suffering on default judgment motion
• reducing plaintiff's $2,000,000 request for pain and suffering damages from a police officer’s assault to $30,000, where the court noted that plaintiff's belief that the incident led to a permanent back injury was “[un]supported by a medical diagnosis”
• plaintiff seeking default judgment “must still offer some proof of damages” before court can decide whether or not to enter default judgment
• “Plaintiff must still offer some proof of damages” on a motion for default judgment
• “In determining the amount, the district court may conduct a hearing.” (citation omitted)
• “In determining the amount, the district court may conduct a hearing.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).