MotorCity Casino Hotel can pursue a default in its lawsuit alleging that Offset owes $100,000 on a casino credit line, after the rapper failed to respond by the court’s deadline, according to Casino.org’s account of a Wayne County scheduling order. The report says Judge Qiana Denise Lillard directed the casino to file for entry of default and submit a motion for default judgment; it said the motion hearing was set for October 23.
That procedural step is not the same as a final judgment. Michigan Courts’ civil benchbook explains that an entry of default admits liability but leaves damages unresolved until a default judgment is entered.
