Richard M. Ross v. National Center for the Employment of the Disabled, as Successor in Interest to Access Healthsource, Inc., Assignee of O.R. Brooker

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• holding that appellate court erred in affirming denial of bill of review on ground of unclean hands based on plaintiff’s failure to cooperate with post-judgment collection efforts in underlying default judgment because bill of review is separate suit from underlying proceeding
• stating that a trial court has “no jurisdiction either to enter judgment or to enforce it against a party who had neither been properly served nor appeared.”
• criticizing trial court’s dismissal of bill of review because of plaintiffs failure to appear without first considering lesser sanctions
• setting aside the default judgment and remanding for trial on the merits of the underlying allegations
• setting aside the default judgment and remanding for trial on the merits of the underlying allegations
• criticizing trial court’s dismissal of bill of review because of plaintiff’s failure to appear without first considering lesser sanctions

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