Ewing

1 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 2 SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 3 Anton EWING, Case No.: 24-cv-0692-AGS-JLB

4 Plaintiff,

ORDER GRANTING DEFENDANT’S

5 v. MOTION TO SET ASIDE DEFAULT

JUDGMENT AND DENYING

6 DME CAPITAL, LLC,

DEFENDANT’S MOTION TO

7 Defendant. DISMISS THE COMPLAINT (ECF 9)

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9 Plaintiff Anton Ewing sued defendant DME Capital, LLC, for violating the 10 Telephone Consumer Protection Act and other statutes, alleging that DME repeatedly 11 contacted Ewing without permission. DME never responded, the Clerk entered default, and 12 this Court granted default judgment against DME. DME now moves to set aside the default 13 judgment and dismiss the complaint. 14 DISCUSSION 15 A. Motion to Set Aside Default Judgment 16 “[D]efault judgments are ordinarily disfavored” since “[c]ases should be decided 17 upon their merits whenever reasonably possible.” Eitel v. McCool, 782 F.2d 1470, 1472 18 (9th Cir. 1986). To that end, the “court may relieve a party . . . from…