Legal Opinion
Jennings v. Rivers
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided January 4, 2005No. 04-6000PublishedCited by 168 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
McKAY, Circuit Judge.
In this civil diversity case, the district court entered a default judgment against defendants J.B. Flowers and Evan Howell when they failed to participate in the litigation. At the scheduled damages hearing, plaintiff and her counsel arrived approximately twenty minutes late, to learn that the district court had awarded zero dollars in damages based on a failure of proof. The district court denied plaintiffs subsequent motion for relief. On appeal, we conclude that the district court abused its discretion in denying plaintiffs motion to set aside the judgment. We reverse…
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