Timothy S. Forsythe Randy E. Brehmer Ted S. Haines v. John L. Hales Comstar Biocapital, Inc., a British Virgin Islands Corporation

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• holding that default judgment was appropriate when “defendants’ conduct in-elude[d] a complete failure to engage in discovery”
• noting that many courts have followed the Supreme Court in Galigher v. Jones, 129 U.S. 193, 9 S.Ct. 335, 32 L.Ed. 658 (1889
• explaining that default judgment is appropriate where a party fails to participate in discovery or to show cause why default judgment should not be entered when ordered to do so
• affirming default-judgment sanction when defendants failed to engage in discovery, failed to appear at depositions and hearings, and failed engage counsel for twenty-five months
• affirming default-judgment sanction because defendants failed to engage in discovery, failed to appear at depositions and hearings, and failed engage with counsel for numerous months
• finding the entry of default proper where corporate defendant “failed to engage counsel admitted to practice before the district court’

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