Roy Sheridan v. DLJ Mortgage Capital, Inc.

Following the close of the Plaintiff’s case in chief, the District Judge granted judgment on partial findings in favor of Plaintiff-Respondent DLJ Mortgage Capital, Inc., and denied Defendant-Petitioner Roy Sheridan the opportunity to present his case in defense. THE QUESTION PRESENTED IS: Does Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 52(c) violate the Due Process clauses of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution, as this Court articulated in United States v. James Daniel Good Real Property, 510 U.S. 43 (1993), if it permits judgment to be entered in favor of the plaintiff after it rests, but before the defense presents its case, as a judgment against a party that was “fully heard”?