Profile Gear Corporation v. Foundry Allied Industries, Inc.

ESCHBACH, Senior Circuit Judge.

“For a long time courts were reluctant to enter default judgments, and appellate courts were reluctant to sustain those that were entered_ Those times are gone.” Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. v. Estate of Cammon, 929 F.2d 1220, 1224 (7th Cir.1991). In the present case, the plaintiff Profile Gear Corporation (“Profile Gear”) lied to opposing counsel and to the District Court and repeatedly failed to comply with discovery requests. After four times ordering lesser sanctions against Profile Gear and providing clear warning of what would come next, the District…