Sidney Davis, III v. Charles T. Hutchins

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that there was no due process violation where an appellant “simply did not attend” the hearing about which it was notified
• vacating award of class damages and affirming default judgment on an individual basis where no class was certified in the district court
• “[T]he general principle [is] that factual allegations in the complaint are deemed admitted by the defendant upon default.”
• “relief cannot be granted to a class before an order has been entered determining that class treatment is proper”
• a district court is “justified in entering default against a party and refusing to vacate the default if the defaulting party has exhibited a willful refusal to litigate the case properly”
• class damages award against defaulted defendant without first certifying the class is invalid

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).