• in the lawsuit Ney v. Landmark Education Corporation and Werner Erhard, a default judgment of over US$500,000 was entered against Erhard?

Facts on topics related to Default judgment

Lawsuit

• Cam'ron filed a lawsuit against R. Kelly as he did not receive credit for his remix of "Snake"?
• Chip Berlet's non-fiction book Clouds Blur the Rainbow: The Other Side of New Alliance Party was referenced in a 1993 United States Federal Court lawsuit involving the FBI?
• administrative law in mainland China has been used unsuccessfully by Chinese dissidents to sue the Communist Party of China?
• Clinton v. Jones established that a President of the United States was not exempt from being sued by private citizens in civil lawsuits?
• Ruiz v. Estelle, originally a handwritten civil suit filed by a prisoner against the Texas Department of Corrections in 1972, became the most far-reaching prison lawsuit in American history?
• Westmoreland v. CBS demonstrated that a public figure cannot win a libel suit in the United States unless reckless and defamatory statements are evidence of actual malice?
• English publishers John Stockdale and his son John Joseph Stockdale were involved in separate lawsuits decades apart, which led to changes in the law in 1792 and in 1840, respectively?
• after Leander Clark College went bankrupt and merged with Coe College, an heir of the school's namesake sued to have his donation returned?
• in Faridah Begum bte Abdullah v. Sultan Haji Ahmad Shah, it was held that non-Malaysian citizens cannot sue a Malay ruler?
• the satirical magazine The Georgetown Heckler changed its name from The Georgetown Lampoon after being threatened with a lawsuit by the Harvard Lampoon?

Pleading

• U.S. judge Charles Crookham held a mock funeral for Roman numerals when they were retired from use in state pleadings?
• where the legal maxim of iura novit curia applies, the parties to a legal dispute do not need to plead or prove the law that applies to their case?