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· 7/18/1986

Shepard Claims Service, Inc. v. William Darrah & Associates, a Foreign Corporation

Citations

  • 796 F.2d 190
  • 5 Fed. R. Serv. 3d 393
  • 1986 U.S. App. LEXIS 27296

How courts have described this case

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

  • stating that \a default judgment can be entered ... by the judge after a hearing on damages \ (second emphasis added)
  • explaining that “entry of default is just the first procedural step on the road to obtaining a default judgment”
  • Explaining that “entry of default is just the first procedural step on the road to obtaining a default judgment.”
  • Explaining that “entry of default is just the first procedural step on the road to obtaining a default judgment.”
  • stating that “a default judgment can be entered . . . by the judge after a hearing on damages” (second emphasis added)
  • noting that federal courts have “a strong preference for trials on the merits ....”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Lively, Well-Ford, Nelson

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