Keller v. Mountlake Terrace Code Enforcement
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3 4 5 6 7 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON 8 AT SEATTLE
9 10 RAYMOND J. KELLER, et al., CASE NO. C24-2172JLR 11 Plaintiffs, ORDER v. 12 MOUNTLAKE TERRACE CODE 13 ENFORCEMENT, et al., 14 Defendants. 15 Before the court are Plaintiffs’ motions for entry of default (Def. Mot. (Dkt. # 33)) 16 and for default judgment (Def. J. Mot. (Dkt. # 34)). Plaintiffs filed their motions on June 17 9, 2025. (See Dkt.) Later that same day, before the Clerk entered default, Defendants 18 filed answers to Plaintiffs’ amended complaint. (See Mountlake Terrace Answer (Dkt. 19 # 35); Evans Answer (Dkt. # 36).) In light of the Ninth Circuit’s strong policy favoring 20 the resolution of cases on the merits, see Eitel v. McCool, 782 F.2d 1470, 1472 (9th Cir. 21 22 1 1986), the court accepts Defendants’ late-filed answers and DENIES Plaintiffs’ motions 2 for entry of default (Dkt. # 33) and for default judgment (Dkt. # 34).
3 DATED this 10th day of June, 2025. 4 A 5 6 JAMES L. ROBART United States District Judge 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18
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