Legal Opinion
John F. Meehan and Robert W. Fink A/K/A Meehan & Fink v. John Snow and Judy Snow
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided June 29, 1981No. 1352, 1457, 1458, Dockets 77-7177, 77-7456, 80-7887PublishedCited by 495 opinions
1Per curiam
John and Judy Snow appeal from judgments entered in the District Court for the Southern District of New York, the combined effect of which obliges them to pay their former attorneys $16,316.51 plus interest. The judgments were entered by default because the appellants were ten days late in serving their amended answer to their former attorney’s amended complaint. Though we share the District Court’s concern for the expeditious conduct of litigation, we reverse because the extreme sanction of default was imposed under an incorrect standard.
Plaintiffs-appellees John F. Meehan and Robert W. Fink…
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