Grand Entertainment Group, Ltd. v. Star Media Sales, Inc.

MEMORANDUM

LOUIS H. POLLAK, District Judge.

This matter came before me on the motion of defendants Ricardo Sanz Perez, Ricardo Sanz, S.A., and Nostra, S.A., to open or set aside a default, and on plaintiffs’ competing motion to approve the report and recommendation of Magistrate Judge William F. Hall, Jr., recommending entry of default judgment in the amount of $34.4 million. 1 The defendants, Spanish citizens and residents, objected to the report and recommendation, claiming that they had not been properly served and thus had never become parties to the action. In a bench opinion rendered…