TANGO MARINE S.A. v. ELEPHANT GROUP LTD.

No. 21-10068.

19 F.4th 808 (2021)

TANGO MARINE S.A., Plaintiff-Appellee, v. ELEPHANT GROUP LIMITED; Elephant Group, P.L.C., Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Filed December 3, 2021.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Stephen Simms , Simms Showers, L.L.P., Hunt Valley, MD, Scott Ryan Wiehle , Kelly, Hart & Hallman, L.L.P., Fort Worth, TX, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Mohammed Obaid Shariff , Adnan Ahmad, Esq. , John Robert Leach, III , Shariff Law Firm, P.L.L.C., Houston, TX, for Defendants-Appellants.

Before JONES, SOUTHWICK, and ENGELHARDT, Circuit Judges.


A maritime case was filed in the Northern District of Texas against two Nigerian business entities. The district court vacated the initial default against the Nigerian entities, but subsequent procedural errors led to a second default judgment that the district court refused to vacate. We AFFIRM.

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