Several years ago, we started a series of jurisdiction-specific posts outlining the Hague Service Convention and options for serving in each place. How to Serve Process in France was first published in 2017 and has been periodically updated since– including some of my favorite travel pictures taken in the land I briefly called home for
To many colleagues in the IP community, the Kangol case issued by the Seventh Circuit last week, along with with its cousins, Smart Study (2d Cir. 2025) and Lahr (3d Cir. 2024), seems to slam the door shut on intellectual property owners who seek to assert their rights against various Chinese infringers. Dozens, hundreds, even
The unabashed Schedule A Crazy Train has come to a stop in Chicago thanks to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. The court has finally said definitively that serving a Chinese defendant by email doesn’t fly except in certain circumstances. Sorry to mix transportation metaphors there.
The Third Circuit already reached that
The hits just keep on coming, y’all. I recently fielded a call from a lawyer in Notkansascity who needed help serving a defendant in Hong Kong. Or at least, he said, he needed help getting his summons and complaint translated into Mandarin– it seems his process server was already taking care of “that Hague thing.”
In six semesters of law school, including two of Civil Procedure, the only time I remember ever hearing a professor mention service of process was in Business Organizations class (known elsewhere and in earlier times as Corporations). That was it.
My BusOrg professor, known to frequent readers of this blog as Big Tony, was
The latest lawsuit trend we’re seeing involves class actions on behalf of farmers and co-ops accusing various fertilizer producers– including several outside the United States– of price fixing. They’re surely destined for MDL designation, quite possibly right here in Kansas City, but for now, they still have to be served in accordance with FRCP
Sorry to be so loud with that.
Well, no, actually. I’m not sorry. I tried to lay all this out last spring, but here we go again.
At least once a month– still– I’ll hear from a very well-meaning client, seeking to rein in costs and save his/her client a boatload of cash and
The U.S. Department of State and Global Affairs Canada each designate “Forwarding Authorities” who are legally competent to sign Requests pursuant to the Hague Service Convention. In Canada, the designation is pretty succinct, setting out a specific list, including various government officials, judicial officers, and “Members of the law societies of all provinces and
If my staff has sent you a link to this post, read it, learn it, and internalize it, because it will prevent a whole lot of heartache down the road. I say this with as much tough love as I can muster, because in a few weeks, you will freak out, you will call or
Over the past couple of years, we’ve seen an uptick in the number of plaintiffs’ attorneys who submit FedEx receipts, attesting to delivery of Hague Service Requests to Central Authorities, filing them as proof of service. In most instances, it’s
