Legal Opinion
Harold Affanato v. Merrill Brothers and Cianbro Corporation, Appeal of Cianbro Corporation
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided January 11, 1977No. 76-1296PublishedCited by 63 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
McENTEE, Circuit Judge.
This is an appeal from a judgment entered on May 24, 1976, awarding plaintiff damages in the amount of $142,500. These damages were assessed against defendant after a hearing which followed the district court’s entry of a default on July 7, 1975. 1 The only issue before us on this appeal is the propriety of the court’s defaulting defendant under the circumstances here presented.
The case began as an apparently routine tort action brought in federal court by reason of diversity. Its course, however, has not run smooth, as is indicated by the following “chronology of…
2Cases cited15 opinions
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- Fed. Sec. L. Rep. P 94,803 Steven Flaks v. David I. Koegel and Flora Mir Candy CorporationCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1974
- Albert Flaksa v. Little River Marine Construction Co., Inc.Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1968
- Powell v. Committee on Admissions & Grievances of the United States District Court for the District of ColumbiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
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3Cited by63 opinions
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- United Nuclear Corp. v. General Atomic Co.New Mexico Supreme Court · 1980
- Cine Forty-Second Street Theatre Corp. v. Allied Artists Pictures Corp.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1979
- John's Insulation, Inc. v. L. Addison & Associates, Inc.Court of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1998
- Luis Felipe Velazquez-Rivera v. Sea-Land Service, Inc.Court of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1990
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