United States Second Circuit

Because a corporation may not appear except through an attorney, defendant corporation's failure to obtain representation of an ongoing complex action justifies its failure to appear, and district court abused its discretion by entering default less than two weeks after permitting original counsel to withdraw.

Appellate Information

• Argued 12/13/2000
• Decided 05/10/2001
• Published 05/10/2001

Judges

• F.I. PARKER, Circuit Judge:, Before CARDAMONE, F.I. PARKER, and KATZMANN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Sheldon Eisenberger,The Law Office of Sheldon Eisenberger, New York, NY, for Defendants-Appellants., Deborah Clark-Weintraub, Francis P. Karam, Milberg Weiss Bershad Hynes & Lerach LLP;  Lester L. Levy, Robert C. Finkel, Wolf Popper LLP, New York, NY, for Plaintiffs-Appellees.