Eddie Wooten v. McDonald Transit Assoc, Inc.

EDWARD C. PRADO, Circuit Judge:

Treating the petition for rehearing en banc as a petition for panel rehearing, see Internal Operating Procedure accompanying 5th Cir. R. 35, the petition for panel rehearing is GRANTED.

We previously issued an opinion assessing whether evidence adduced at a default-judgment “prove-úp” hearing can cure a facially deficient complaint, a question this Court left open forty years ago in Nishimatsu Construction Co. v. Houston National Bank, 515 F.2d 1200 (5th Cir.1975). 1 See Wooten v. McDonald Transit Assocs., Inc., 775 F.3d 689 (5th Cir.2015). Upon reconsideration,…