Cook v. Rowland

OPINION

I. INTRODUCTION

Following the entry of a default judgment against him in excess of $7,000,000, Kim Michael Cook filed a peremptory challenge of the assigned judge and a motion to set aside the default judgment. The superior court rejected the peremptory challenge as untimely and refused to set aside the default judgment. Because three members of the court-Chief Justice Fabe, Justices Matthews and Bryner-have concluded that Cook has shown both excusable neglect and a potentially meritorious defense as to damages, we set aside the default judgment and remand for a redetermination of…