New England Carpenters Central Collection Agency et al v. Watch City Door Specialists, LLC et al.

Filing 13

Judge Rya W. Zobel: ORDER entered denying 10 Motion for Default Judgment (Urso, Lisa)

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS

CIVIL ACTION NO. 18-10470-RWZ

NEW ENGLAND CARPENTERS CENTRAL COLLECTION AGENCY, et al.
v.
WATCH CITY DOOR SPECIALISTS, LLC, et al.

ORDER
March 13, 2019
.
ZOBEL, S.D.J.
In November 2018, plaintiffs requested entry of a $121,748.30 default judgment
for the defendants’ alleged failure to pay employee benefit contributions pursuant to
collective bargaining agreements. Docket # 10. Because the affidavit accompanying
the motion for default judgment lacked sufficient evidence to support the requested
default sums, the court initiated a telephone conference with plaintiffs’ counsel to
request evidentiary grounding for the desired judgment. Docket # 11. On March 4,
2019, plaintiffs submitted a letter response. Docket # 12. Far from providing evidence
sufficient to permit the entry of judgment, the letter is simply a regurgitation of the
earlier-submitted breakdown of the claim. See Docket # 10-1 (Affidavit of Damages
and Taxable Costs). The court still does not know the requirements of the parties’
agreements nor plaintiffs’ calculations of contributions, interest and other sums that
defendants allegedly owe. Accordingly, plaintiffs’ Motion for Entry of Default Judgment
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(Docket # 10) is DENIED.1

______March 13, 2019_____

_______/s/Rya W. Zobel__________

DATE

RYA W . ZOBEL
SENIOR UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

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The court also notes that defendant Watch City Door Specialists, LLC was not
properly served within 90 days of plaintiffs’ filing the complaint. Fed. R. Civ. P. 4(m).

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