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EMPLOYEE PAINTERS' TRUST v. ETHAN ENTERPRISES

No. 05-35270.

480 F.3d 993 (2007)

EMPLOYEE PAINTERS' TRUST; Resilient Floorcovering Pension Fund; Western Washington Floor Covering Apprenticeship Fund; Western Washington Floor Covering Industry Promotion Fund; Rebound Trust; Carpet Linoleum & Soft Tile Layers Local Union 1238 IUPAT, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. ETHAN ENTERPRISES, INC., a Washington corporation; Rebecca Johnson, individually; Gregory S. Tift, individually, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed March 16, 2007.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Randolph W. Urmston, Hendricks & Lewis, Seattle, WA, for the appellants.

Robert A. Bohrer, Ekman, Bohrer & Thulin, Seattle, WA, for the appellees.

Before: RYMER, BERZON, and TALLMAN, Circuit Judges.

BERZON, Circuit Judge:

Several trusts that administer employee benefit plans sued for delinquent contributions. Appellants, Ethan Enterprises and two of its officers, failed to participate in much of the litigation, and a default judgment was entered against them for roughly a million dollars. The district court denied Ethan and the individually-named defendants relief from the judgment. We affirm, albeit for a different reason with respect to each: The company violated...

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