Shortnacy v. North Atlanta Internal Medicine, P.C.

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that “the potential for manifest injustice exists in this case if default judgment is entered against the defaulting defendants because they have pled what appears to be a meritorious defense”
• noting that “the potential for manifest injustice exists in this case if default judgment is entered against the defaulting defendants because they have pled what appears to be a meritorious defense”
• physician had no duty to third party to control patient under Restatement [Second] of Torts § 315
• “The injection record states that [patient] was told that he should not drink alcohol, drive, or operate heavy or light machinery for 12 hours after the injections.”
• “[P]laintiffs have demonstrated no prejudice to their case by the opening of default, particularly since they waited 11 months after filing proof of service to move for entry of default judgment.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).