Phoceene Sous-Marine, S. A. v. U. S. Phosmarine, Inc., and Samuel G. Lecocq

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• holding default entry violated due process where the sanctioned party’s deception was wholly unrelated to the merits of the controversy
• finding entry of default for “deceiving the court on a 2 matter wholly unrelated to the merits of the. . . case” “inconsistent with the requirements of due 3 process”
• “[The litigant’s] deception related not to the merits of the controversy but rather to a peripheral matter: whether [the litigant] was in fact to ill to attend trial on October 10.”
• lying to court in support of motion to continue trial
• lying to court in support of motion to continue trial
• lying to court in support of motion to continue trial

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).