Cayabyab

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA SAN JOSE DIVISION 7 IGLESIA NI CRISTO, Case No. 18-cv-00561-BLF

Plaintiff,

ORDER GRANTING DEFENDANT

v. BERNARD GARCIA’S MOTION TO

SET ASIDE CLERK’S ENTRY OF

LUISITO E CAYABYAB, et al., DEFAULT Defendants. [Re: ECF 149]

13 Defendant Bernard Garcia (“Garcia”), who is proceeding pro se, moves to set aside the Clerk’s entry of default against him. See Def.’s Mot., ECF 149. The motion is fully briefed and the Court has taken it under submission without oral argument. See Pl.’s Opp., ECF 150; Def.’s Reply, ECF 152; Order Vacating Hearing, ECF 154. The motion is GRANTED for the reasons discussed below. I. BACKGROUND Plaintiff Iglesia Ni Cristo (“INC”), a non-profit religious corporation, filed this action on January 25, 2018. See Compl., ECF 1. INC claims that a number of its former ministers, officers, and members (“Individual Defendants”) and the non-profit religious…