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CASTRO v. SAUDI ARABIA

No. DR-79-CA-05.

510 F.Supp. 309 (1980)

Ramon CASTRO, Maria Del Socorro Castro, Martha Elena Castro, Bertha Alicia Castro, Socorro Guadalupe Castro, Jesus Ramon Castro, and Rose Isela Castro, Individually and as the survivors of Joe Raymond Castro and Gregorio Castro v. SAUDI ARABIA.

United States District Court, W. D. Texas, Del Rio Division.

June 12, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

V. F. Knickerbocker, Knickerbocker, Abrams & Cowan, Eagle Pass, Tex., Broadus A. Spivey and Paul E. Knisely, Spivey & Grigg, Austin, Tex., for plaintiffs.

Doran, Gulley & Etzel, Haygood Gulley, Del Rio, Tex., for defendant.

ORDER DECLARING DEFAULT JUDGMENT VOID FOR LACK OF JURISDICTION AND DISMISSING ACTION

SUTTLE, Senior District Judge.

Only the plaintiffs were represented at the evidentiary hearing on the plaintiffs' motion for default judgment. Because the plaintiffs' evidence indicated that Saudi Arabia's failure to answer was wilful, and because the court hesitated to vigorously engage in the role of adversary on behalf of...

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