Finally, federal war costs exclude billions of dollars of state, municipal, and private war costs across the country â dollars spent on services for returned veterans and their families, in addition to local homeland security efforts. (Page updated as of April 2015).
If the small claims judge grants the defendant's motion to vacate a default judgment, then one of two things will happen. If all parties are present and agree, the small claims judge may hear the original case without rescheduling it.
The judge will want to know the status of discovery, the need to for court assistance to move things along, the date of any possible upcoming events, the waiver of certain rights, etc. After a status hearing, which includes many preliminary hearings, the next steps occur, whatever they may be. A judge cannot drop a case - only the prosecutor can decide to drop a case. But, a judge can answer requests by the defense - and one such request is to dismiss a case for lack of evidence. But that does not occur until a request is made and that request, hopefully, is based upon sound legal argument and the rules and law.