Ruth Leshore, Etc. v. County of Worcester

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• upholding vacation of default where defendant’s attorney’s illness caused failure to respond
• answer filed about nine months after default, motion to set aside default filed about four months after default was entered
• district court did not abuse its discretion when it accepted attorney’s illness as justification to set aside default
• “Furthermore, although Rule 55(c) permits the removal of both an entry of default and a default judgment, the standard for the former at issue here, is more liberal.” (citing Coon, at 76)
• “Furthermore, although Rule 55(c) permits the removal of both an entry of default and a default judgment, the standard for the former at issue here, is more liberal.” (citing Coon v. Grenier, 867 F.2d 73, 76 (1st Cir. 1989))
• finding good cause when defendant was not given actual notice

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).