Default Entered vs. Second Defendant in Unlicensed DVD Case

The U.S. District Court for Southern Florida in West Palm Beach entered a default against Ronin Entertainment for failure to answer or otherwise plead to the complaint against it within the time required by law, said a clerk’s notice Thursday (docket 9:23-cv-80008). Ronin is one of about a dozen named defendants, including Amazon, Best Buy, Target and Walmart, that independent film company Redoak Communications alleges are unlawfully selling unlicensed DVD and Blu-ray copies online of the 1981 film Just Before Dawn. Ronin is the second defendant in two days to have defaulted in the case for failure to answer Redoak’s Jan. 4 complaint (see 2302090017).