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Failure to Obtain Default Judgment

N.D. Tex. LR 55.1

If a defendant has been in default for 90 days, the presiding judge may require the plaintiff to move for entry of a default and a default judgment. If the plaintiff fails to do so within the prescribed time, the presiding judge will dismiss the action, without prejudice, as to that defendant.
Official source: https://www.txnd.uscourts.gov/sites/default/files/documents/CIVRULES.pdf · retrieved 2026-07-22