UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF INDIANA INDIANAPOLIS DIVISION

ANNIE L. FEAGIN, ) ) Plaintiff, ) ) v. ) No. 1:20-cv-01107-JPH-MJD ) JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A., ) ) Defendant. ) ) ) JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A., ) ) Counter Claimant, ) ) v. ) ) ESTATE OF DONNA G. TUOHY Through ) Personal Representative Garth Madison, ) ANNIE L. FEAGIN, ) ) Counter ) Defendants. )

ORDER DENYING MOTION FOR ENTRY OF DEFAULT AND GRANTING MOTION FOR LEAVE TO FILE ANSWER

JP Morgan Chase Bank, N.A., has moved for clerk’s entry of default as to Annie Feagin for her failure to answer its counterclaim. Dkt. 23. Ms. Feagin then filed a motion for leave to file an answer, as well as an answer to the counterclaim. Dkt. 24; dkt. 25. The Court GRANTS Ms. Feagin's motion for leave to file answer, dkt. [24], and accepts Ms. Feagin's answer, dkt. 25, as the operative pleading on file with this Court. See A. Bauer Mech., Inc. v. Joint Arbitration Bd. of Plumbing Contractors' Ass'n and Chicago Journeymen Plumbers’ Local Union 130, U.A.,

(7th Cir. 2009). JP Morgan Chase Bank, N.A.'s motion for clerk’s entry of default, dkt. [23], is therefore DENIED. See Fed. R. Civ. P. 55(a); Sun v. Bd. of Trs. of Univ. of IL,

, 811-12 (7th Cir. 2007). SO ORDERED. Date: 6/18/2020 . James Patrick Hanlon United States District Judge Southern District of Indiana

Distribution: ESTATE OF DONNA G. TUOHY Through Personal Representative Garth Madison Matthew Thomas Ciulla BARNES & THORNBURG, LLP (Indianapolis) [email protected] Daniel Cueller THE CUELLER LAW OFFICE [email protected] Terrance Lamont Kinnard KINNARD & SCOTT [email protected] Brett Hunter Pyrdek BARNES & THORNBURG, LLP (Chicago) [email protected]