Law School Toolbox Podcast Episode 416: Listen and Learn -- Service of Process (Civ Pro)
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John Lewis of BakerHostetler Discusses Use of Social Media in Gawker Class Action
Serving Legal Documents Through Social Media
On July 17, 2023, Justice Reed of the New York County Commercial Division issued a decision extending the time for service and permitting the Plaintiff in Zantaz Enter. Archive Solution, LLC v. Adecco IT Servs., Inc., Index...more
For those readers who are not familiar with the Convention on the Service Abroad of Judicial and Extrajudicial Documents in Civil or Commercial Matters (the “Hague Service Convention”), it was established to facilitate...more
Foreign defendants located in countries that are signatories to the Hague Convention on the Service Abroad of Judicial and Extrajudicial Documents (“Hague Convention”) must be served pursuant to the Hague Convention. The...more
A recent opinion from the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California may help plaintiffs facing the difficulties related to serving foreign defendants, especially in light of challenges caused by the current...more
On December 21, 2018, Japan objected to service by direct mail under Hague Service Convention Article 10(a), which is welcome news for Japanese parties subject to foreign litigation, but creates a hurdle for U.S. plaintiffs...more
Product liability litigation is no stranger to corporate defendants residing outside of the United States. Whether you work for a foreign corporation or represent a foreign corporation, service of process should be at the...more
California adopted the 1962 Uniform Foreign Money-Judgments Recognition Act in 1967. The Act was intended to encourage the reciprocal recognition of United States judgments abroad by codifying rules as to foreign money...more
A trend has emerged which demonstrates the London Commercial Court’s increasing willingness to adopt a pragmatic approach to the method of service of documents on a foreign State in appropriate cases, even though the...more
Your company has entered into a contract with a smaller, foreign company to do business. While your relationship starts off strong, it quickly sours when you discover that the smaller company’s quality standards do not meet...more
Partially obscured by the significant patent venue ruling in TC Heartland, another decision issued by the Supreme Court on the same day, Water Splash v. Menon, presents guidance for multinational plaintiffs and defendants...more
In a decision sure to have wide-ranging implications for cross-border discovery and governing privacy regimes, the Supreme Court recently held in Water Splash, Inc. v. Menon, that the Convention on the Service Abroad of...more
For nearly thirty years, federal and state appellate courts have been split on the issue of whether the Convention on the Service Abroad of Judicial and Extrajudicial Documents in Civil and Commercial Matters, November 15,...more
Starting a lawsuit against defendants outside the United States just got cheaper and easier. On May 22, the U.S. Supreme Court settled a dispute as to whether the Hague Convention on the Service Abroad of Judicial and...more
The U.S. Supreme Court rendered an 8-0 decision in Water Splash, Inc. v. Menon, on May 22, 2017, confirming that service of a complaint and summons by mail is not precluded by the Hague Service Convention (the “Convention”)....more
This week's unanimous U.S. Supreme Court decision in Water Splash, Inc. v. Menon, 581 U.S. ___, No. 16-254, points out a glaring omission in Wisconsin’s service-of-process rules that ought to be fixed, so that Wisconsin...more
The U.S. Supreme Court has decided to review a key issue concerning service abroad of process on foreign defendants — namely, whether foreign defendants may be served by mail. The case, Menon v. Water Splash, Inc., marks the...more
The English Civil Procedure Rules specify a number of “jurisdictional gateways” by which a foreign defendant may be brought within the jurisdiction of the English courts under the so-called common law rules. Amongst these is...more
You are sitting at your desk when your client calls to tell you that his or her customer breached an agreement. As you do your intake, you ask where the customer resides. You learn that the customer (potential defendant) has...more
On March 7, 2013, a federal court in Manhattan ruled, in Federal Trade Commission v. PCCare247 Inc., that service via Facebook is an acceptable alternative means of serving court documents on foreign defendants. Although this...more