Use Social Media For Legal Service Only As A Last Resort

Law360, New York (October 27, 2014, 10:14 AM EDT) -- A person's presence on social media may be easier to trace than locating his or her physical whereabouts. After exhausting all reasonable efforts to serve legal process personally, litigants have sought court permission to serve and notify evasive parties of legal proceedings through their social media accounts. So far, courts have been mostly unwilling to allow such alternate service. The central issue concerns whether service through social media furthers or compromises a party's right to be notified in a timely and proper manner under the circumstances of the case....

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