I say all the time that we aren’t building rockets here. But we are building a ship of sorts, and if the vessel is leaky, we won’t make it to port and the captain will be
How to Serve Process in Austria (beginning September 12, 2020)
Guess what– you still can’t serve via a subsidiary (unless…)
Way back in March, 2017, I posted a blurb about the limitations on serving offshore parent companies via their U.S. subsidiaries. In short, I argue, you can’t simply serve a U.S. subsidiary and call it effective on the foreign parent. You have to have a compelling reason to pierce the corporate veil.
This is basic
Yeah, buddy, they do check translations.
Hague Service Convention requests constitute 99% of my practice– that’s a literal statistic.* Easily half of them are sent to
You’ve got a friend in 4(m).
One of the biggest fears my clients face is dismissal under a forum
N.D. Cal. gets it right!
Ah… faith in humanity restored. Just a bit.
In a rant yesterday (NO, 4(f)(3) is NOT co-equal to Hague channels!), I took issue with the impossibly bad logic in another order approving electronic service on a Chinese
NO, 4(f)(3) is NOT co-equal to Hague channels!
Yet another one popped up on the old radar (Google news alerts) yesterday… a National Law Review article highlighted Victaulic Company v. Allied Rubber & Gasket Co., Inc. in S.D. Cal., but the author’s conclusion was far too optimistic for plaintiffs seeking a
Good, bad, or unknown addresses… and the Hague Service Convention.
One immutable truth looms over everything I do: if you can’t tell me where your defendant is, I can’t get him served
YES. THEY’RE STILL OPEN.
Austria Ratifies the Hague Service Convention
(Updated September 12, 2020: see here for the revised way to serve in Austria.)
News dropped last week that Austria has, at long last, ratified the Hague Service Convention, which will enter into force on September 12. Its declarations are yet to be posted to the very excellent HCCH website (they are on the
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