The judge issued a default judgment in favor of the plaintiffs in at least one non-delivery case. (A default judgment occurs when the accused does not bother to respond or show up in court.) BFL now wants that default judgment overturned. My opinion: When they found out that the legal system does work, even if not quickly, arrogance became fear.
Default judgments are fairly routinely overturned when they result from a mere mistake or inadvertence. The doctrine is called excusable neglect and generally applies with trivial missed deadlines and actually having a valid defense. BFL may be SOL on the latter part, though courts usually would prefer to decide cases on the merits as opposed to procedural defaults.
(Now, when a default is due to willful bad conduct, it's a different matter. Not sure if that applies here.)
