Trans World Airlines, Inc. v. Howard R. Hughes, and Hughes Tool Company and Raymond M. Holliday

How courts have described this case

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

• reasoning that party “cannot be permitted to block the discovery of precise, clear and direct evidence and then be heard to complain that the evidence should have been more convincing”
• “[I]t would appear that were less at stake in this litigation, the propriety of the default judgment would not nave deserved the full discussion we have afforded it”
• “For example, an allegation made indefinite or erroneous by other allegations in the same complaint is not a well-pleaded allegation.”
• referring to district court’s default standard as “entirely correct”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).